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		gaius on Aug 22, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What does Ruby have that Python doesn't? I believe Python's __getattr__() and __setattr__() allow you do the same thing, but I don't know enough Ruby to say for sure :-)

aconbere on Aug 22, 2008 [–]

You couple those with ruby's method_missing and then you have some interesting functionality. But basically the way that Ruby handles operator overloading and function accessing is a lot cleaner than pythons. It would be pretty nice to get rid of a lot of the dunders.

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