quote:Original post by Arild Fines

quote:Original post by Raghar
It''s strange because it''s just a syntax sugar.

Everything except for CPU microcode is syntax sugar(sic).

No, if a language construct saves you a significant amount of time, or makes your life significantly easier, then it''s not "sugar".

Operator overloading does not save a significant amount of time. It is exactly the same amount of work to call a function through an overloaded operator, as it is to call a normal function. And it takes like 5 seconds to change a function call between the two styles.

Imagine if Java had the same number of operator as J (APL''s descendant), how would you feel about operator overloading then?

quote:Original post by GnuVince

quote:Original post by hpolloni

quote:Original post by Oluseyi
I concur. The rationale was that operator overloading is often abused, and the Java mantra is to eliminate anything that is potentially confusing, obscure or "dangerous". It''s a pretty tame language. Nevertheless, the C++ operator overloading syntax is fugly, unintuitive and necessitates the addition of another keyword (operator). The elegant way to do it would be to have certain specially-named functions (perhaps with leading underscores, indicating their reserved status) which, when implemented, were evaluated as symbolic operators.

Oluseyi is now officially a D fan

Exactly like Python too:

class MyClass:    def __add__(self, rhs):        # Do stuff        def __getitem__(self, index):        # Do stuff    def __setitem__(self, index, value):        # Do stuff  

But I''m not fan of this. What is __setitem__? I like how Ruby does it:

class MyClass  def +(rhs)    # Stuff  end  def [](index)    # Stuff  end  def []=(index, item)    # Stuff  endend  

i didn''t know python support operator overloading, you learn something everyday,well my python knowledge is really limited,and my ruby knowledge too,heck the only thing i know is C,and some C++,oh and perl,and some Java too. And about operator overloading,is a language feature,so if you want to use it,use it,simple isn''t it?,the only thing you have to worry is that your code is readable and understandable, use comments, and etc etc. My criteria for operator overloading is only use it if it has a mathematical meaning(i.e. operating vectors, complex numbers,etc).

that''s my two cents