[984] in java-interest
Re: overloading of operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Futplex)
Wed Aug 16 06:34:44 1995
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 02:42:13 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199508151751.KAA02252@webrunner.neato.org> from "owner-java-interest-digest@java.sun.com" at Aug 15, 95 10:51:30 am
From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
Someone whose original message never made it here, and whose name has been
omitted by subsequent posters, writes:
> 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.
Oh my. You don't by chance work for a company that just released
SuperWordWriter 8.2.7, a word processor that also balances your checkbook,
computes digits of pi, routes TCP/IP packets, and cleans up after dinner ?
IMHO this is a *major* mistake made by various hardware and software outfits.
Adding complexity that you don't really need tends to make many people's
lives more difficult.
I'm on this mailing list because I'm interested in developing relatively
secure applications to run in relatively hostile network environments. Plenty
of people want to pick Java as a reasonably "safe" language for programs
(applets) that will be downloaded from the net and run on local machines, in
real time. I hope that Sun will KISS.
Meanwhile, as I mentioned in a reply to someone else recently, you can't
turn around without falling over heaps of languages packed with all sorts
of funky features. How about we have at least a few languages that don't
have maximal quantities of crud shoveled into them ?
I don't see much merit in saying "Why not ?". I believe the burden of proof
lies on your side: why do we *need* to add this stuff ?
That said, I don't have any religious objection to the abstract notion of
operator overloading. I counsel heavy caution and conservatism in the
selection of specific implementations of it / support for it.
-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>
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