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Re: Simulating new user-defined operators

by Carl Barron <cbarron413@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apr 16, 2008 at 03:59 AM

In article <fu2pd8$i3o$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Seungbeom Kim
<musiphil@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 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.
   as would any code using boost::spirit as it overloads operators to
simulate EBNF grammars in C++ and is often useful for parsing input
that is not easily done via iostreams only.

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 11 Posts in Topic:
Simulating new user-defined operators
Vidar Hasfjord <vattil  2008-04-14 12:43:32 
Re: Simulating new user-defined operators
Michael Aaron Safyan <  2008-04-14 21:25:12 
Re: Simulating new user-defined operators
"Martin T." <  2008-04-15 12:28:37 
Re: Simulating new user-defined operators
Edward Rosten <Edward.  2008-04-15 12:33:04 
Re: Simulating new user-defined operators
Alberto Ganesh Barbati &l  2008-04-15 23:19:14 
Re: Simulating new user-defined operators
Seungbeom Kim <musiphi  2008-04-15 23:18:03 
Re: Simulating new user-defined operators
ManicQin <ManicQin@[EM  2008-04-16 03:58:47 
Re: Simulating new user-defined operators
Vidar Hasfjord <vattil  2008-04-16 03:55:06 
Re: Simulating new user-defined operators
Carl Barron <cbarron41  2008-04-16 03:59:56 
Re: Simulating new user-defined operators
Michael Aaron Safyan <  2008-04-16 04:13:19 
Re: Simulating new user-defined operators
Vidar Hasfjord <vattil  2008-04-16 04:13:19 

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