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Re: Operator underloading (was: overloading of operators)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Louis Van Zandt)
Sat Aug 19 03:46:05 1995
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 23:14:17 -0500
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: corfu@mcs.com (Louis Van Zandt)
Philip Gladstone wrote:
>I propose that we do some operator-underloading. The + sign is already used
>for integers and floating point. This leads to endless confusion, so I
>propose that + is reserved only for integers, and that a new operator
>("floatAdd" - if you like smalltalk syntax) or a class member function be
>defined to add floats.
Would something like this be acceptable:
+int -int *int /int
+long -long *long /long
+string -string *string /string
+Class1 -Class1 *Class1 /Class1
etc....
Louis Van Zandt
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