On Saturday, January 5, 2013 4:50:35 AM UTC, Nils Bruin wrote:

> Perhaps more importantly: What is to be gained with the added 
> indirection of abs


Naming consistency. It makes it clear that you are supposed to implement 
absolute value through __abs__() and not norm() or absolute_value() etc.


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