[978] in java-interest
op overloading is really two issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas H. Moog)
Wed Aug 16 03:16:15 1995
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 23:17:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Thomas H. Moog" <tmoog@mcs.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <199508152322.QAA09326@webrunner.neato.org>
I think that the discussion of operator overloading is mixing up two
separate issues (1) infix notation and (2) reuse of builtin operator
symbols.
To use an earlier example in which a,b, and c are strings:
1. a = b + c infix with reuse of symbols
2. a=b.concat(c)
3. a=concat(b,c)
4. a=b .concat. c infix w/o reuse of operator symbol
How difficult would it be to have infix notation without reuse of
operator symbols ? I think using alpha infix operator symbols would
reduce the desire to overload operators like "+". Perhaps C++ programmers
overload "+" because there are no user definable infix operators.
Tom Moog
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