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Re:Object Oriented Programming is Inherently Harmful by vardump on Sunday November 30, 2014 @03:36PM (#8677990)
Operator overloading is a syntactic sugar trick that hides the real method call. Nothing more, nothing less.

It's useful in vector math, complex number math, matrix math.

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Re:Object Oriented Programming is Inherently Harmful by TheCoelacanth on Sunday November 30, 2014 @07:54PM (#8678963)
Operator overloading is useful for a lot more than just math. Overloading * and -> is useful for pointer-like types. Overloading () is useful for function-like types. Overloading [] is useful for collections and overloading ++ and -- is useful for iterators.
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Re:Object Oriented Programming is Inherently Harmful by SamReidHughes on Sunday November 30, 2014 @08:48PM (#8679101)
The overloading of (), [], and the like is used but it's not necessary. They could have been other named overloaded functions.
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