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Re:C++23: The Next C++ Standard by throwaway894345 on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @08:09AM (#36693362)
Yes, overloading is bad (operator overloading is a kind of overloading).
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Re:C++23: The Next C++ Standard by joshuamorton on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:44PM (#36701398)
How do you do math without overloading? I have ints, floats, bignums, vectors, matrices, complex numbers, and potentially fractions.

You want every operation to have a distinctly named version for each other numeric type?

Maybe you can reduce some of those, but you can't really have interfaces without some overloading.

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