Re: RFC 54 (v1) Operators: Polymorphic comparisons

[David L. Nicol]

Clayton Scott wrote:

>         I first thought that "==" and "eq" were cut from the same cloth as
>  "||" and "or" that is the difference was precedence. Then I learned.


Mr. Scott's experience is evidence for a strong argument AGAINST operator
overloading.  If we allow object types, and allow object types to
overload, we lose the clarity we have in a language that doesn't have
these things.

Maintaining code with perl5 package-modules is difficult enough, but
at least all the object method calls are explicitly object method
calls and there aren't any object method calls masquerading as
well-understood builtins!


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