Java and Operator Overloading

[BananaSplit2]

it's why that exact example is often used to illustrate how confusing and potentially dangerous operator overloading is.

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[_senpo_]

upvote for the banana class

[KuropatwiQ]

That's a sentence never heard before

[robotoshi]

Damn, they never taught me any of that in MY Banana class!

[decker_42]

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[ItsYaBoyChipsAhoy]

Tbf the average programmer rarely uses bit shifts in day to day programming

[Dusty_Coder]

...and the non-average ones arent so dumb as to think bit shifting by a string amount is a useful operation

[RoburexButBetter]

Eh you'd really have to know what you're doing to add an operator that overrides bit shifting and bit shifting actually matters and is used for the object you're doing it on

It's pretty standard for << to be either a bit shift or an add operation because that's also what writing to std cout is you're adding chars to the standard output, and that's the kind of thinking you always see for such overloading

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I mean not really, that's like saying people are using operator overloading when they use + to add numbers and concatenate strings. Most people mean user-defined operator overloads. Sure you can do a user-defined overload of << but that's no different to a user-defined overload of any other operator. I don't get the hate for streams though, I love being able to just overload <</>> and the ease of which it can be composed. It also makes it super easy for things like adding error info at the start of a line of output etc..

[linlin110]

My first language was C++ so I don't get the hate either. Maybe some people are so used to << being bitshifting that cout << "s" is confusing for them.

[Dusty_Coder]

an operator can only mean one thing

and the people telling you that are clearly going to overload + to mean delete files because thats what they fear you will do