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Lutz Donnerhacke wrote:
> * Russ wrote:
>>Actually, a competent programmer will define the "+" operator in terms
>>of the ":+" operator rather than vice versa, because the ":+" is
>>usually more efficient (since it has no need for temporaries and extra
>>copying).
> 
> Wrong.

That's certainly the way it's usually done in C++,
for exactly the reason stated, so a bald "wrong" is
not terribly enlightening.