On Friday 11 May 2007 15:15, Loup Vaillant wrote:
> I tend to agree when one says custom operators are evil. However, when
> the default syntax uses operators, the custom ones are a net win : a
> wise programmer will use their semantic load carefully (big nums, for
> example)

Ints, nats, floats, complexes, quaternions, column and row vectors, matrices, 
tensors, inner and outer products, symbolic expressions... This is why I like 
operator overloading.

For example, Smoke has the multiplications: * (int), *. (float), *| (vector 
scaling), *|| (matrix-vector transform) and *||| (matrix-matrix multiply).

Operator overloading and template metaprogramming were the only things I 
missed moving from C++ to OCaml. :-)

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