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Re:Computer scientist Viral Shah helped build Julia from Ben... by vostok on Sunday April 23, 2017 @09:35AM (#14178098)
Glad to hear that. Will it be possible to overload . in the future?
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Re:Computer scientist Viral Shah helped build Julia from Ben... by StefanKarpinski on Monday April 24, 2017 @09:06AM (#14183963)
There's been extensive discussion of that and yes, it may well happen [1]. The biggest concern at this point is how to avoid having people abuse such a feature by trying to fake out class-based o.o. code in Julia in a way that will look right but work poorly.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1974

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