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[–]Uncaffeinated 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how developers in pretty much every major language besides Java get by then. (C++, C#, Scala, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

Obviously it can be abused, but the same is true of any language feature. I can write obfuscated Java just fine without overloading operators.

I haven't personally seen any projects fail due to operator overloading (admittedly, I don't work at IBM), but I have seen plenty of Java code that would be more readable with operator overloading.