14 May
2020
14 May
'20
11:08 p.m.
On 5/13/20, Paul McJones <paul(a)mcjones.org> wrote:
C continues the tradition begun by Fortran and Algol 60 of overloading the
arithmetic operators on the various numeric types. C++ allows new types to
be defined; when a new type obeys the generally understood properties of a
built-in type, it makes sense to use the same operator (or function) for the
corresponding operation on the new type (e.g., addition on complex numbers,
arbitrary-precision integers and rationals, polynomials, or matrices).
I agree; that makes sense. But I don't like things such as << and >>
in I/O-related classes.
-Paul W.