An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice)

Posted Jul 26, 2015 23:02 UTC (Sun) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
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In Python, "a + b" could return literally any type, any value. All it takes is the appropriate "def __add__ (a, b): return value" in some class somewhere.

That applies to Perl, too – see “perldoc overload”.