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From: faustus@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Operator overloading harmful (good criticism, bad example)
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Date: 12 Jan 88 21:44:56 GMT
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You just have to make sure that whenever you use operator
overloading, the operators do The Right Thing.  Don't use
`+' unless the operation you're doing is some form of addition
(matrix, complex, etc), and is the obvious way to add things
of the arguments' types.  It's a matter of common sense...

	Wayne