Tom wrote:

>
> Albeit Brian Hurt's comment about operator overloading making more 
> harm than good in C++, I believe that overloading simply has to be 
> used appropriately - it's like saying pointers are bad because they 
> can introduce memory leaks and null references, and division is bad 
> because it can raise Division_by_zero exceptions.
>
So maybe we should introduce pointers into Ocaml?

Brian