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These aren't the operators you're looking for (Score:2)

by djberg96 (2603) on 2005.05.03 11:05 (#40165) Journal

Like most Java droids, he read somewhere that operator overloading was evil and is now spewing the party line like a good little toadie.
The belief that operator overloading is evil stems largely from abuse by the C++ crowd. However, Ruby has shown me that it can be extremely useful without being the least bit confusing.

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  by Aristotle (5147)
  
  OTOH you can also abuse it in Ruby. (And Perl.)
  
  It’s just very much like Java to be sternly patriarchal about things that could potentially be harmful. “No multiple inheritance for you! No operator overloading for you! No inheriting from base type classes for you!” Etc.

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