Syntactic Aspartame: Recreational Operator Overloading

摘要

Operator overloading is a controversial subject. There are programmers who feel it is merely syntactic sugar with a potential for abuse, and should never have made it into the language. However, you could object that p0bject- > Foo(x) is merely syntactic sugar for Foo(p0bject, x). And while many people would agree that event += observer is less clear than event. Register(observer), many others (especially programmers dealing with scientific applications) would certainly not like to go back to a = add(mul(p, q), r).