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From: steve@vsi1.UUCP (Steve Maurer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Operator overloading considered harmful
Message-ID: <240@vsi1.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 88 21:24:59 GMT
Reply-To: steve@vsi1.UUCP (Steve Maurer)
Organization: Vicom Systems Inc. San Jose, Cal.
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    I have a bone to pick with operator overloading.    While
I must admit that it can be convienient at times, it suffers the
same problems that you get when dealing with someone who goes
crazy with #define's , or virtually anything written in Forth :
Essentially, every programmer becomes his own language designer,
and the whole thing gets totally unreadable.

Consider the following:

    foo(int i)
    {
    i #= i ^^ i @& i;
    }

what does it do??    You will never know unless you start digging
through miles of include/lib files.

					Steve Maurer