Re: Java operator overloading

[Etienne Gagnon <gagnon.etienne_m@uqam.ca>]

Hi Maya,

Maya Gokhale wrote:
>    It is somewhat related, but not completely. We want to do operator
> overloading as in C++, so that, for example, an infix "a + b" will invoke
> a particular method in "a"'s class that understands "+" given an argument 
> of "b"'s class. 

So, how will you deal with "precedence & associativity overloading" which
should go along with operator overloading?  I know C++ simply does not
redefine precedence and associativity of overloaded operators, but this
seems wrong to me, as associativity and precedence are a part of the
definition of an operator.  In other words, if you are ready to add
operator overloading, why not go all the way and fully implement it?

Etienne

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