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From: timm@sed.novell.com (Tim Myers)
Subject: Re: Overloading?
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 91 00:21:25 GMT

In article <209.2812FBE7@puddle.fidonet.org> 
Ben.Stuyts@p6.f202.n281.z2.fidonet.org (Ben Stuyts) writes:
> So what are people's opinions about adding operator overloading in M2?

I think it can improve the readability of programs when it is used 
properly.

Thomas Boyer at Brigham Young University wrote a thesis on how he 
successfully
implemented operator overloading in a Modula-2 compiler.

++Tim



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Tim Myers
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