Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > E. g. [in Java there is] no operator overloading, but "+" > concatenation of strings. What if you'd like to implement your own > string-derived class? Ah, never mind. Operator overloading is > bad(tm) ;) <= Irony, definitely
Definitely? That one strikes me more as sarcasm. It would have been "irony" if, in attempting to combat operator overloading, you instead demonstrated by your very efforts that it was essential and beneficial. (Yes, everything Alanis Morrissette complains of in her song "(Isn't It) Ironic" is not at all ironic, but is merely unfortunate. There's a possibility she was aware of this: <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_(song)#Lyrics_controversy>) (good sigmonster, have a cookie) -- \ "I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono | `\ album; no rhyme or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and | _o__) then it's over." -- Ian Wolff | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
