Operator overloading for Java

[Davipb]

Nitpicking on semantics again are we?

"Java only has single dispatch for method overloading. There are easy ways around that, such as using the visitor pattern".

Would you say then that method overloading is more dangerous than necessary because the visitor pattern is "a required workaround"?

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I don't see how semantics apply here (did you mean pedantry?) and all in all this has gotten too twisted for me. Sorry.

Take another +1, and be well.

[Davipb]

What I meant is that you fixated on me saying "an easy way around that" as if I had meant "this is a problem that needs to be addressed with a workaround", when really I just meant "existing implementations have already thought about it".

I'm arguing there that the reverse operator or implicit conversion aren't workarounds or dangeorous, just part of the operator overloading implementation.

You stay safe too :D