:: learning about OO ::
In the old days, I tell my students, numbers were stupid, they couldn't do anything, didn't know anything. Operators descended from heaven, like space ships, and caused numbers to be added and multiplied.Tara and I are both working today (school is work), she for no income. Mom phoned. Alexia spent the day with us yesterday, is interviewing for a new position.
But in Python, everything is a snake, a live object, including numbers like 1 and 2, and they have knowledge of addition and multiplication "in their bones" (__ribs__). When you go 1 * 2, that's not a space ship, bristling with static methods from on high, from the alien "knows operations" land, that's invoking an innate ability of the integer type.
It's a change in gestalt, especially if you start with the old one.
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The inauguration is bein' a blast, watching the two first couples, now the veep couples, shaking hands. Why is Cheney in a wheel chair today? (volume muted).
Helicopter. Well done.
