> Python is a bit more haphazard; the infamous `len(str)`, to wit.
There is nothing infamous about it. It's a multimethod, the designers of Python decided that mandating the same function for everything (via a common protocol under the covers) was better than risking people implementing a thousand different method names. They did the same with the iterator protocol.
There is nothing infamous about it. It's a multimethod, the designers of Python decided that mandating the same function for everything (via a common protocol under the covers) was better than risking people implementing a thousand different method names. They did the same with the iterator protocol.