On 12/09/2006, at 11:56 AM, Malcolm V wrote:
The true evil is overloading. Dynamic typing allows operator
overloading which makes things really hard for anyone to parse
correctly.
Things like the simple plus symbol (+) no longer means add two
numbers
together, but "munge two things together". With the poor programmer
left
to remember what happens when various types are munged together.
Not necessarily...
Like all powerful programming language features, operator overloading
can be used for good or for evil. People who work on and use maths
libraries greatly appreciate C++'s operator overloading's
capabilities. Haskell, in particular, has great support for operator
overloading, and the language will ensure that you cannot abuse it
for things that aren't numeric. (In Haskell, you cannot actually
overload the + operator to concatenate two strings, for example -- a
common (ab)use of + that's present in a lot of dynamically typed
languages.)
(And, as Erik said, operator overloading has nothing to do with
dynamic typing.)
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