[Edu-sig] Natural Language Programming

[Kirby Urner]

>Too hard!  It's enough to do
>
>         move = translate
>

And let's not forget, while we're at it, that a 
synonym for a word might by another symbol, like *,
thanks to the "operator override" feature.

>From my real "poly" class (polyhedron), written before
I'd forgotten what Tim just showed me:

 class Poly:            

  <<SNIP>>

      __mul__ = scale
      
      __rmul__ = __mul__
      
  >>> import polys
  >>> a = polys.Octa()
  >>> b = a*3
  >>> b
  Octa: origin=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0); volume=108.0
  >>> c = a.scale(3)
  >>> c
  Octa: origin=(0.0, 0.0, 0.0); volume=108.0

Kirby