On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:56:10 +0300, dsimcha <dsim...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Occasionally i encounter this argument that operator overloading is bad thing when it is abused. I don't overload operators offensively myself, i use dot(vec, vec) cross(vec, vec) for example because there is not a suitable operator and these names suits much better.
On the other hand i am not against languages being flexible, quite contrary i don't call it a language if it is not. OO is an impressive tool and we need tools like this for better libraries. You can't change a language for a long time but you can update a library in very short period of time.
vec add(a, b) { return a.x - b.x } vec operator+(a, b) { return a.x - b.x } Is there a difference?