[924] in java-interest
Re: overloading of operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Terence John Parr)
Tue Aug 15 16:59:32 1995
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 10:45:23 -0700
From: Terence John Parr <parrt@parr-research.com>
To: mlorton@eshop.com, parrt@parr-research.com
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
Howdy,
> When you are adding number-like class (Matrices, Tensors, Quaterions),
> nothing beats Op-Ov for readability.
I agree that nothing beats
Matrix a=..., b=..., c;
c = a + b;
for readability. However, I still feel that it would allow too many
bad things...the price isn't worth it.
> What we want to prevent is the
> promiscuous abuse of Op-Ov for whatever might pop into the novice
> programmer's so-called brain.
True...only way to prevent is to refuse ;)
> I notice no-one is complaining about the hard-wired Op-Ov in the
> String class ...
Absolutely, for two reasons:
1 It's predefined in the language, not programmer dependent.
2 It's a fairly well known and obvious construct.
Terence
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