[904] in java-interest
overloading of operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terence John Parr)
Mon Aug 14 21:31:49 1995
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 15:07:33 -0700
From: Terence John Parr <parrt@parr-research.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Ack.
Yeah, count me as a "no way Jose'" on operator overloading. Down
with C++ where any random stream of ASCII chars is a program. Long live
the simplicity of Java!!!! I hate C++ because you can never tell what
you're reading without scanning the entire class hierarchy.
Also, count me in for a reversal of AVH's decision to make 'new' bind
differently. It ruins the beauty of our (Parr/Mitchell/Funck) grammar,
causes confusion, and allows some truly bizarre syntax. Without a
good language reference we could always count on a similarity to C/C++
for help--now we can't.
Anybody else wanna "vote" on the 'new' operator and operator overloading?
Remember silence implies consent!!! If we wait too much longer, Sun
can claim that too much code exists already to change the language.
Terence
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