On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 21:48:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/2/2013 1:47 PM, TommiT wrote:
Division operator for strings doesn't make any sense,
That's why overloading / to do something completely unrelated
to division is anti-ethical to writing understandable code. The
classic example of this is the overloading of << and >> for
stream operations in C++.
I've never thought of it like that. At some point I remember
writing a vector type which overloaded its binary * operator to
mean dot product (or cross product, I can't remember). So, you
can overload an operator, but you can't overload the meaning of
an operator.
