[944] in java-interest
Re: overloading of operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Mitchell)
Tue Aug 15 20:09:49 1995
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:09:49 -0700
From: "John D. Mitchell" <johnm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Michael Lorton <mlorton@eshop.com>
cc: parrt@parr-research.com, java-interest@java.sun.com
In-reply-to: <199508151649.JAA19230@eshop.com>
Michael Lorton writes:
> FWIW (For what it's worth) I would *favor* operator overloading, with
> severe restrictions (it can only take Objects, it can only return
> Objects, &c) if that helps.
Hmm... That's a reasonable restriction to make in Java but I still think
it's not worth the cost in increased complexity (but I am pretty biased
:-).
But, of course, there's still the issues of operator precedence and
association that cause all sorts of subtle, hard to find bugs.
Take care,
John
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