Re:Zig, Skia, Clojure, Geometry and the Japanese TV Show: IC...
by pron on Friday July 16, 2021 @04:44AM
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> Operator overloading just seems like such a strange bugbear of Zig folks to me.
Not operator overloading; just overloading. You can't overload ordinary-named subroutines in Zig either.
> and then you know plus (with two arguments) has a different meaning in that module.
That's not overloading, that's shadowing. Overloading is when the same name refers to multiple things depending on the type of its arguments. Erlang allows overloading based on arity, but that's something that can be understood from the call-site code.
Not operator overloading; just overloading. You can't overload ordinary-named subroutines in Zig either.
> and then you know plus (with two arguments) has a different meaning in that module.
That's not overloading, that's shadowing. Overloading is when the same name refers to multiple things depending on the type of its arguments. Erlang allows overloading based on arity, but that's something that can be understood from the call-site code.