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From: ddb@ns.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Should I convert FORTRAN code to C?
Summary: Comparison, too
Message-ID: <292@ns.nsc.com>
Date: 30 Jun 88 16:40:17 GMT
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In article <8184@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> However, operator overloading is vastly overrated;
> most operations on extended data types do not map (unambiguously) onto
> the conventional arithmetic operations.  Complex numbers are about the
> only case that does.
  Comparison and assignment.  Operators aren't all arithmetic.
  C already supports assignment of structures, but I miss comparison
regularly.  (Note -- I'm not changing the subject to suggest yet again
that equality comparison of structures be implemented, I'm talking
about the uses of operator overloading; just in case the other is
still a touchy subject here :-).

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