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Re:Go Modules in 2019 by Merovius on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @06:27PM (#18720975)
> The best course of action for Go on this front, would be to expose operator overloading of numeric operators, combined with a community expectation that this isn't to be used for anything but numeric operations.

I don't think this solves the issues. For example, I have yet to think of a way to overload `+` in a consistent and performant manner. E.g. think of `a += b` vs. `a = a + b`. Either you make them separate operators (in which case there's no guarantee they do the same thing - see for example Python, where they commonly differ) or you are overallocating in the common case.

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Re:Go Modules in 2019 by stcredzero on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @08:47PM (#18721856)
Either you make them separate operators (in which case there's no guarantee they do the same thing - see for example Python, where they commonly differ)

Geez. That's obnoxious. Why do we programmers do this to ourselves?

or you are overallocating in the common case.

I see. I was thinking along the lines of being able to use complex numbers with arithmetic operators, not along the lines of doing high performance crunching of floats.

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