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by anilakar 2089 days ago
Using maths to either oppose or support generic duck typing is just pointless, because it's easy to come up with counterexamples where a mathematical operation would or would not behave as expected.

In quite a few cases where one would overload a mathematical operation to, say, sum two objects of certain type, it'd be better to explicitly type out the operation as a functor/lambda.