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RE: [Caml-list] Operator overloading

Robert Fischer
- Michael Hicks
  - Brian Hurt
- Tom
  - Brian Hurt
    - Michael Vanier
    - Till Varoquaux
      - Brian Hurt
        
        skaller
  - Ian Zimmerman
    - Jon Harrop
      - Ian Zimmerman
- skaller
  - Tom
    - skaller
      - Tom
        
        skaller
        
        Jon Harrop
  - Jon Harrop
- Jon Harrop
- Andrej Bauer

Date:	2007-03-09 (10:45)
From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Operator overloading

On Thursday 08 March 2007 23:51, skaller wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:02 -0600, Robert Fischer wrote:
> > When I see "+", I want to know what that means.  With operator
> > overloading, I don't know.
>
> This argument is fallacious: When you see + you know it means addition
> of whatever argument types are used.

Not necessarily. It also means set union and string concatenation in F#, for 
example.

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