The discussion about operator overloading quickly went away from the JavaScript'ish approach that ExtendScript and your proposal used towards generic functions. At some time, the discussion stranded in areas too exotic for me. There is a rationale here: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=discussion:operators
Michael From: Mark S. Miller [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 7:48 AM To: Michael Daumling Cc: es-discuss Subject: Re: Operator Overloading Strawman for Harmony On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Michael Daumling <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Mark, This is very close to the pattern that Adobe's ExtendScript already offers, and that has been rejected before, unfortunately. The differences are: Hi Michael, Yes, this is indeed quite similar. Why was it rejected? Do the reasons for rejection apply equally well to the present proposal? -- Cheers, --MarkM
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