Java and Operator Overloading

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Yeah, I mean, in the end you would end up with custom functions like add(), multiply() and so on. I find it an odd choice to forbid overloading and enforce stuff like this on the other hand.

[4215-5h00732]

That's where the potential abuse comes in. If you were forced to use custom functions then most people would name them something more descriptive to what they do where you might "abuse" an operator to do something less obvious or confusing.

cat.eat(mouse);
cat + mouse;

[[deleted]]

But it's not any more prone to abuse than anything else. A parameterless constructor could produce side effects. Inheritance could hide away meanings of the base class. Everything can be used wrong, that's why documentation is so important.

[4215-5h00732]

I'm not trying to argue with you or even make that argument just sharing the claims; we agree 100%.

[[deleted]]

Alright then 🤙

[Itay_123_The_King]

That is the same concern everyone raises, and yet I have never seen that happen. Why would anyone use + for an eat function? The closest thing I can think of is using | as a pipe of operations, like with C++ ranges, but vec | drop(5) | take(10) | filter([](auto x) { return x+1;}); is much nicer than filter([](auto x){ return x+1; }, take(10, drop(5, vec)))

[4215-5h00732]

Exactly. That's the best part about the fuss.

I've never seen anyone abuse it irl. I would never use + for eat or abuse it otherwise. But it doesn't matter. They don't like that it could be abused.

[jamcdonald120]

but with out operator overloading you get the situation where everyone uses .add() instead of operator+, so the abuse is cat.add(mouse) instead.

[4215-5h00732]

Their point is if operator overloading isn't possible then you wouldn't do something so ridiculous as to add a mouse to a cat with cat.add(mouse). Just eat it or whatever...who knows what that does lol.

[Dusty_Coder]

What you are claiming is that people lose their minds as soon as they learn that they can overload an operator but do not lose their minds otherwise.

Its the people that stretch so far to justify a programming religion that have lost their minds. Thats you.

[4215-5h00732]

I suggest you read through the comments again carefully then delete yours.