Re: [VOTE] Userspace operator overloading

On 28.03.2020 at 15:57, Johannes Schlüter wrote: > On March 28, 2020 1:25:11 PM GMT+01:00, "Christoph M. Becker" > <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > >> This "try left/right" approach is how operator overloading works for >> internal classes[1], and apparently, it works quite well, as long as it >> is not overused. > > The fact that it works in one or two cases as an implementation detail where the full > implementation is controlled by a single group (internals) is no indication for it to work at large. Fair enough. But maybe Python, where userland operator overloading works similar to the proposal at hand, is? :) Furthermore, it is already possible to do operator overloading in userland by using the FFI extension[1], and given that operator overloading appears to be desired by many developers, I'd rather add it to the language, then having to deal with libraries which do it via FFI. [1] <https://github.com/lisachenko/z-engine#object-extensions-api> -- Christoph M. Becker