Re: Simulating new user-defined operators

Michael Aaron Safyan wrote:
> Using operator% in this manner would never pass my code review, because
> this usage has absolutely nothing to do with taking the modulus of a
> value, and -- therefore -- this usage is unintuitive.

What would you say to

     boost::format("%1% %2%") % x % y

which has absolutely nothing to do with modulus, or even

     std::cout << x << y
     std::cin  >> x >> y

which has absolutely nothing to do with bit ****ft?

Not necessarily that I agree with the OP's proposal, but your argument
seems to disapprove creative uses of operator overloading, including those
that did turn out to be successful and make it into the position of being
a standard idiom, just because they're creative.

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