[952] in java-interest
Re: Operator Overloading
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Lanett)
Tue Aug 15 21:02:47 1995
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:46:39 -0700
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
From: mlanett@meer.net (Mark Lanett)
At 9:25 AM 8/15/95, Thomas Ball wrote:
>Yes, but isn't it interesting that the only examples operator-overloading
>proponents use are either the one above [string] or numeric types such as
>matrices?
Don't forget points and rectangles. These benefit greatly from having just
about every numeric operator defined (and overloaded). You can argue that
they're just matrices, of course; I still want them.
C++ stream operators are nice also.
Mark L
Have a bajillion brilliant Jobsian lithium licks
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