On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 05:34:10AM +0100, Marco Leise wrote: > Am Sat, 28 Dec 2013 15:24:31 +0000 > schrieb "Dicebot" <pub...@dicebot.lv>: > > > AFAIK it is intentionally banned to constrain operator > > overloading abuse. > > That and it makes the compiler faster. [...]
And discourages writing unreadable code like that C++ regex template library that turns expressions into something that's neither (numerical) expressions nor regular expressions. Operator overloading abuse at its finest. T -- "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)" -- Larry Wall