Re: Implementation (simple!) operator overloading

From: Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 07:36:59 +0000
Subject: Re: Implementation (simple!) operator overloading
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Well, you do the overloading yourself right, you write the function to be called when we encounter an overloaded function.. On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Emiliano wrote: > > > > Uhm, unreadable? > > the &?& stuff was unreadable, this to my opinion is > > pretty much straight to the point.. add/substract something > > from an object and cause a function to be called for this.. > > I think you'd make the C++ programmers happy:-) > > What I dislike about operator overloading is how they can mean > different things to different people. Since the operator doesn't say what > it does, that makes the code less readable unless you did the overloading > yourself so you _know_ what it is going to do. Given a date object $d and > a person object $p, what does $d + $p mean? Or $d * $p? > > Emile > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >

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