[511] in java-interest
Re: BigInteger class out there?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henri BROUCHOUD - FT.CNET/LAA/EIA/)
Tue Jun 27 04:47:26 1995
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 10:01:35 +0200
From: "Henri BROUCHOUD - FT.CNET/LAA/EIA/AIA" <brouchou@lannion.cnet.fr>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
> 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 thought Java was designed as C++ like, in order to make it "quite simple"
and short "to learn". I sincerely think operator overloading is one major
feature of C++, I prefer to read
a = b + c~ + d
(whatever are a,b,c,d : real, int, complex, matrix, string, color...)
than
a = (b.add ( c.invert())).add (d) ;
It seems to me that the expressivity and readibility of a language is an
important point to make it easy, maintenable, extensible, and then popular
(I really don't like Tcl...). Everybody's like sugar !
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