[506] in java-interest
Re: BigInteger class out there?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim frost)
Mon Jun 26 19:10:41 1995
To: cmcmanis@scndprsn.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM, mlorton@eshop.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jun 1995 13:23:29 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 16:47:47 -0400
From: jim frost <jimf@world.std.com>
|>Which brings us to my question: why no operator overloading in Java?
|
|My understanding was that it was a value/complexity tradeoff but either
|Arthur van Hoff or James Gosling can answer this question more completely.
Personally I'm not too keen on operator overloading; while it's useful
for extending the numeric types it makes people want to build things
like C++'s iostreams. Is the benefit really worth the cost?
(I'm only half joking.)
jim frost
jimf@world.std.com
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