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<LI><em>From</em>: <A HREF="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</A> (Chris Gray)</LI>
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[Nathan Y:]
: Also, don't
:pull stunts like the addition sign in a string in Java. Its annoying, to
:say the least, to have operator overloading in a single special case, and
:not anywhere else in the language.
Gee, that's exactly what I've done. I don't think of it as operator
overloading, however, since there is no way for a programmer to define
new operators or new operator meanings. The base language uses '+' for
addition of ints, of fixeds, and of strings. That's all. It uses '=' for
comparison of all types in the system.
My implementation language, 'Draco', does in fact allow operator overloading
when defining new types, but I've never used it (other than for a complex
number package done as an experiment). I find overloaded operators to
be too unreadable - I much prefer a descriptively named function.
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Chris Gray cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00506" HREF="msg00506.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The 'Socialiser' problem</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00442" HREF="msg00442.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] The 'Socialiser' problem</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00444" HREF="msg00444.html">[MUD-Dev] Mud Languages</A></strong>,
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