Re:Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smal...
by lolinder on Friday August 12, 2022 @10:47PM
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Whatever you feel about operator overloading, it's way better than the Objective-C version, even the version floated by the defenders. String interpolation is even better, sure, but the + alternative isn't that bad. As you noted, natural language does the same kind of overloading and we seem to cope with it just fine.
The Add operation has a whole bunch of properties and this not only isn't most of them, it's arguably not any of them, the main argument for + as a string concatenate operator is "Well, people seem to like it". Which, I guess I/O streams doesn't even have that going for it, but it's a pretty terrible rationale.
Look, just grow string interpolate and write f"{foo}{bar}" or whatever as much as you like don't abuse unrelated operators.