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From: bob  <bob@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: Ada OO Mechanism
Date: 1999/05/24
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In article <3749E9EC.2842436A@aasaa.ofe.org>, David says...
>
 
>Think of vectors and the dot product. C++ forces you to view one vector
>as significant (a becomes "this" inside dot function, it's called
>a.dot(b)), even though in a dot b, a and b are equal significance - dot
>product is a symmetric function. Ada makes them of equal importnatce in
>the dot function body and call.

Are sure you are not talking about Java (which does not have user defined
operators) ?

You have to do the above in Java 'a.dot(b)'

but in C++, (unless '.' is one of those few things that are not
allowed to be redefined), I can write 'a.b' just fine, why not?

Bob