Re: Operator Overloading (Was: In Praise of Strong Typing)

Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> This is not bad code (albeit C++ code)
> Vector operator+(const Vector &left, const Vector &right) {
>      Vector result;
>      for (int i = 0; i < Vector::size; ++i) {
>         result[i] = left[i] + right[i];
>      }
>      return result;
> }
> ...
> myNewVect = someVect + someOtherVect;

Its pure evil. Consider this:

myNewVect = someVect * someOtherVect;

What kind of product is it ? 
- inner product ? 
- tensor product ? 
- cross product ?
- carthesian product ?

The fact that YOU know exactly how did you overload operator* does 
not necessarily mean everyone else does as well.

Regards, BG