[1088] in java-interest
Re: Operator Overloading
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Wheeler)
Fri Aug 18 12:40:36 1995
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 95 08:36:21 EDT
From: tomw@intelligraphics.com (Tom Wheeler)
Reply-To: tomw@intelligraphics.com (Tom Wheeler)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
>Here's an example from a commercial class library (I think it's
>more revolting than compelling).
>
>This is a snippet of code from some product literature for the
>Zinc Application Framework:
>
> // Add the movie control window
> *windowManager + new MOVIE_CONTROL;
>
Yes, this is a horrible example. Obviously it should be
*windowManager += new MOVIE_CONTROL;
because you are adding a new control to windowManager, not adding the
windowManager and the new control. Although
*windowManager << new MOVIE_CONTROL;
would probably be good too, meaning "insert a new control into the
windowManager".
I'm a proponent of operator overloading, but the above shows just how
silly you can get with it.
Regards,
Tom Wheeler
tomw@intelligraphics.com
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