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Re: overloading of operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Fitzhardinge)
Wed Aug 16 04:55:19 1995
From: "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@suede.sw.oz.au>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 15:35:22 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Robert O'Callahan" <roc+@cs.cmu.edu>
"Re: overloading of operators" (Aug 15, 9:08am)
To: "Robert O'Callahan" <roc+@cs.cmu.edu>, java-interest@java.sun.com
On Aug 15, 9:08am, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
> I also vote
> for using :: or some other token as the package seperator
*yes* Overloading '.' (for namespace resolution and for member access)
is pretty ambigious; not just for the compiler but also for the reader of
code. When I look at code, I want to *know* that I'm seeing a
fully-qualified type without having to know about the package heirachy.
I'm not fussed about whether it's "::" or something else to do namespace
resolution, but "::" has the weight of history.
J
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