Don wrote:
There's not many sensible operators anyway. opPow is the only missing one that's present in many other general-purpose languages. The only other ones I think are remotely interesting are dot and cross product.
Yup.
Anything beyond that, you generally want a full DSL, probably with different precendence and associativity rules. Eg, for regexp, you'd want postfix * and + operators. There are examples of clever things done in C++ with operator overloading, but I think that's just because it's the only way to do DSLs in C++.
I was enthralled with the way C++ did it for regex for a while, but when I think more about it, it's just too clever. I think it's more operator overloading abuse now.
I don't think the applications are there.
I agree.
