David Mathog wrote:
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Operator overloading reminds me of Bill Clinton's:
"It depends what the meaning of 'is' is." If operator
overloading is used unwisely, so that the meaning of "+" is not just
"addition of this type of data", then pity the poor schmuck who has to
maintain the code. Unfortunately you don't have to look far for
data types where there is no single operator overload mapping that
makes sense. If A,B,C,D are 3D vectors then + has a single obvious
meaning, but * is ambiguous, is it a dot product or a cross product?
That's the point where C++ overloading breaks down, at least for me,
and a function or #define is easier to work with, something like :
A = B + CROSS_PRODUCT(C,D)
While I love the C preprocessor, I wouldn't look that way for the Fount
of Code Clarity.
--
Geoffrey D. Jacobs
To have no errors
would be life without meaning
No struggle, no joy
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