Re: RFC 159 (v1) True Polymorphic Objects

[Tom Christiansen]

>Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
>> 
>> >    Operator Overloading
>> >    -------------------------------------------------
>> >    PLUS             Called in + context
>> >    MINUS            Called in - context
>> >    TIMES            Called in * context
>> >    DIVIDED          Called in / context
>> >    MODULUS          Called in % context
>> 
>> How about ye olde ADD, SUB, MUL, DIV, and MOD?

>Yeah, these are good. They're the "wrong tense", but they are all the
>same length, which is a plus.

I encourage one to examine how Python does this.  Particularly attractive
is the way one does not have to distinguish between tie and operator 
overloading there.

--tom