What about extending proxies to have operator traps? On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Benjamin Gruenbaum <[email protected]> wrote:
> I see some discussion is happening - that's good. > > As I don't want to see the tremendous amount of work people put into value > types and operator overloading go to waste - let's bring Brendan and > Christian into this discussion and start with a link to Brendan's 2013 > slides: > > http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/value-objects > > Let's consider value semantics for this. > > > I've been working on implementing operator overloading and would like to > submit a proposal. > > > I think operator overloading would be a useful addition to the language. > In particular I think it would be useful for defining operations on common > mathematical object types such as complex numbers, vectors, matrices, and > sets. > > > I've create a working prototype that consists of: > > > babel plugin that rewrites operators as function calls > > a polyfill which defines these functions and which call the correct > argument-specific function based on the arguments' prototypes > > Function.defineOperator which can be used to define which function an > operator should use for the specified types > > "use overloading" directive which allows users to opt-in > > More details can be found at kevinbarabash/operator-overloading. The > babel plugin can be found at > kevinbarabash/babel-plugin-operator-overloading. I also have a demo project > at kevinbarabash/operator-overloading-demo. > > The design was inspired by some of the slides from > www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/js-resp. > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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