Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 05:03:06 07/30/03
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On July 29, 2003 at 15:17:51, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 29, 2003 at 14:18:55, Sune Fischer wrote: >>On July 29, 2003 at 13:39:48, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>On July 29, 2003 at 09:38:30, Sune Fischer wrote: >[snip] >>>>Absolutely, operator overloading rocks. >>>>Just try working with vectors and matrices in C :o >>> >>>That's on the one hand. >>> >>>On the other hand, there is nothing worse than operator overloading gone bad. >>>And I really mean it. >> >>It's intented to make things simpler, not more complicated. >> >>But your right of course, the powers of C++ is not for the timid. > >Shot myself in the foot once. Like every C++ newbie, I wrote a C++ number class >(this was long before the <complex> template came to be). > >I thought it would be nice to use the ^ operator to represent complex >exponentiation. >BZZTT!! Wrong operator precedence. Thanks for playing. > >Another worse gotcha is when people create a very inobvious operator overload. >Or even one that is counter intuitive. > >I could write a class (for instance) where a comma represents "format the disk" >and a minus sign means concatenate two strings together. or a shift left represents output... ;) > I have seen things >nearly this strange. > >Of course, you can get bizarre in C too (the >"C Puzzle Book" BTW, is this book worth the read? is proof enough of >that.) I once had the displeasure of someone giving me a function that was a >64K return statement. He thought it was cute.
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