Re: wacky object idea

From:	Zeev Suraski	Date:	Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:15:01 +0000
Subject:	Re: wacky object idea
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At 14:34 29-08-00, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:

"Stig S. Bakken" wrote: Conclusion: if you want your code to be understood by others,
            avoid overloaded operators.
... unless you are creating classes for complex or big numbers,
    vectors, matrices or similar numeric things, and thats where
    java fails ever so badly, whatever excuses they might give ... :(

These are more or less the only text-book examples that there are; It's no coincidence that these are ALWAYS the examples given for overloaded operators. For most part, operator overloading is bad, and if the price is losing 'neat' notation for complex numbers, it's a worthy price, IMHO. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/