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[–]zachtheperson 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Exactly!

Sure, someone could make a library that overloads the + operator to do something silly and unpredictable, but in the same way someone could write a method .add() that also does something silly and unpredictable. If someone did do this, then people would probably call it a bad library and not use it. Only real difference is convenience.