Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdragon!gvcormack
From: gvcormack@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Gordon V. Cormack)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Operator overloading considered harmful
Message-ID: <4538@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 88 14:03:08 GMT
References: <240@vsi1.UUCP>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <240@vsi1.UUCP>, steve@vsi1.UUCP (Steve Maurer) writes:
   (as an indictment of operator overloading).
> 
>     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.

Would it be clearer as

    foo(int i)
    {
       glorp_assign(i, fred(xyz_arrows(i,i),nerf(i)));
    }
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