I forgot to mention in my last email that I'm looking for a champion for this proposal.
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Kevin Barabash <kev...@khanacademy.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been working on implementing operator overloading and would like to > submit a proposal. > > I think operator overloading would be a useful addition to the language. > In particular I think it would be useful for defining operations on common > mathematical object types such as complex numbers, vectors, matrices, and > sets. > > I've create a working prototype that consists of: > > - babel plugin that rewrites operators as function calls > - a polyfill which defines these functions and which call the correct > argument-specific function based on the arguments' prototypes > - Function.defineOperator which can be used to define which function > an operator should use for the specified types > - "use overloading" directive which allows users to opt-in > > More details can be found at > https://github.com/kevinbarabash/operator-overloading. > The babel plugin can be found at > https://github.com/kevinbarabash/babel-plugin-operator-overloading. > I also have a demo project at > https://github.com/kevinbarabash/operator-overloading-demo. > > The design was inspired by some of the slides from > http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/js-resp. > > – Kevin > > >
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