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Subject: Re: Complex type / C++
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Date: Mon, 11-May-87 13:58:58 EDT
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> How do languages like C++ and Ada deal with this?
> Do they require the definition of some minimal set of operators?

C++ permits you to overload any of the existing operators.  The new
operators have the same arity and precedence as the one that's being
overloaded.  (In other words, you can't change the syntax of the
language.)

> Is there a K&R of C++?

Yup.  It's called "The C++ Programming Language", is published by
Addison-Wesley (as was K&R), and is in somewhat the same format as
K&R (a pile of tutorial information with the Reference Manual stuck
in the back).  It's by Bjarne Stroustrup (no surprise there), and is
ISBN 0-201-12078-X