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From: "Terry J. Westley" <westley@calspan.com>
Subject: Re: renaming Interfaces.Java.Ada_To_Java_String to the + operator
Date: 1998/01/13
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Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com> wrote in article 
> Well, when I was doing a lot of numerical linear algebra and signal
> processing work, I really wished that I could invent my own unary and 
> infix operators rather than being forced to use function call syntax 
> for everything. While I'm sure that someone could use that to write
really 
> ugly code, there are situations where that notation (obscure to an
> outsider) could have made code much nicer. 

This is precisely the sort of thing:

   A = B + C

which made FORTRAN so popular.  The programmer couldn't invent
his/her own operators of course, but it was a big improvement over:

   LD  B
   ADD C
   STO A

for readability.  In the same way, use of the + operator can
make a program more readable, not less.