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From: cfoughty@digi.lonestar.org (Cy Foughty)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Does Modula-2 have operator overloading?
Message-ID: <824@digi.lonestar.org>
Date: 25 Jul 90 18:31:35 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications, Plano Tx.
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The subject says it all. The operator overloading I would like to
see is like that of (Gasp) C++. In that NEWLY created data types can have
the operations for "+", "-", etc. defined in the implementation module.
Example:

TYPE 
	String = ARRAY[1..1000] OF CHAR ;

(* Implementation code here*)

Then in application code:

VAR
	str1 	: String ;
	str2	: String ;
	str3	: String ;

	str1 := "This is" ;
	str2 := " a test" ;

	str3 := str1 + str2 ;

"str3" would then contain "This is a test".

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