[976] in java-interest
Re: overloading of operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tako Schotanus)
Wed Aug 16 00:59:54 1995
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 95 10:09:08 +0200
To: Matthew-Newman@deshaw.com (Matthew Newman), MikeDacon@aol.com,
java-interest@java.sun.com
From: Tako Schotanus <Tako.Schotanus@bouw.tno.nl>
At 00:59 15-08-95 +0100, Matthew Newman wrote:
>Amen.
>
>One of the key attractions of Java is the lack of excessive features, a
>small simple clean language, take that away and we wont use it.
>
>On Aug 14, 7:01pm, MikeDacon@aol.com wrote:
>} Subject: Re: overloading of operators
> > Hi Everybody,
> >
> > Since we seem to be "unofficially" voting. I'll jump in.
> >
> > No to operator overloading. Simplicity is more important than "just one more
> > feature."
I don't understand you guys at all! It's not as if *your* programs would be
any worse off for just having a feature built into the language!
And as for other people's programs, you're basically telling them "you can't
use that feature because I don't like it".
I don't mind if we don't get operator-overloading, but if the Sun-people
really listen too us on this list we'd better make sure we make our reasons
for having or not having something are good ones.
So for me: *I* like operator-overloading, I think that if you use it in a
controlled way it can make your code more elegant, but that's a personal
opinion for sure. But I might not be alone, I might be working for a
company where it's "policy" to write code like that, and because everybody
does it you don't have to worry that much about misinterpreting each others
code.
As for the fact that somebody else might find it difficult to understand my code,
well to be honest (as long as I don't publish the code ;) I don't give a
.......... (fill in your favourite rodent's backside).
I apologise if this is a bit rude, but I really think that it's nobodies
business but mine to decide what features I'm going to use or not.
So shortly put: If there are NO compelling reasons NOT to have the feature
we might as well considering putting it in for the people who want it.
(Compelling reasons could be: performance problems even for programs NOT
using the feature or even just that the Sun-people think it's too much work :)
- Tako
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