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Re: overloading of operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul R. Potts)
Tue Aug 15 18:04:11 1995
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 95 12:10 EDT
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From: ppotts@frymulti.com (Paul R. Potts)
I actually have gotten very used to using operator overloading in C++, and
miss it in Java.
However, Java already *has* some operator overloading: you can use + to
concatenate strings. Thus, I immediately found myself also trying to use
+= on them, to no avail. Unfortunately this is a special case, instead of
being an extensible mechanism. I'd like to have these operators available
for defining all kinds of operations on different classes. "Let a thousand
flowers bloom..."
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