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A comment on Operator Overloading in C [pdf].

Re:Operator Overloading in C [pdf] by mingodad on Saturday August 20, 2022 @04:53AM (#32530505)
It's an interesting approach to bring more expressiveness to C, this part need a bit more thought:

"If any spaces or parentheses appear in the type name, they will be substituted by an underscore. Thus unsigned int will become unsigned_int the type BitInt(27) becomes BitInt_27_ ."

Because "unsigned_int" (or any combination of the base types with an underscore) can already be used on user code.

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Re:Operator Overloading in C [pdf] by sigsev_251 on Sunday August 21, 2022 @08:59AM (#32539709)
The names of the functions behind the operators use the '_' prefix which is reserved in the global namespace, so I don't really see a problem as long as the programmer stays in their lane (not using '__', '_' and libc prefixes).
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