Programming Perl makes many references to overloading something. For
instance overloading the angle brackets. What does this term mean. I am
assuming it just mean changing the default behavior but I wanted to make
sure.
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From: Paul Kraus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 2:26 PM
To: 'Perl'
Subject: Term Overloading
Programming Perl makes many references to overloading something. For
instance overloading the angle brackets. What does
Hi Paul
Operator overloading is using the same operator to serve for multiple data
types. For instance a language that differentiated between string and
numeric data may overload the '+' operator to perform string concatenation.
It is frequently used in object-oriented programming to define the
