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From: tracer@stb.UUCP (Jeff Boeing)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Operator overloading considered harmful
Message-ID: <10067@stb.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 88 18:10:10 GMT
References: <240@vsi1.UUCP> <8180001@nucsrl.UUCP>
Reply-To: tracer@stb.UUCP (Jeff Boeing)
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In article <8180001@nucsrl.UUCP> gore@nucsrl.UUCP (Jacob Gore) writes:
>It was my impression that in C++ you could not define operators with new names
>-- only overload existing names.  

Aw, dingleberries!
Does that mean I can't overload an operator called "**" and use it for
exponents?!
   Drageburgers.  We're right back to Kernighan & Ritchie's old
           double pwr(double x, int y)
function.

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