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Robert A Duff wrote:
> Operator overloading is just one subset of subprogram overloading

Sure. I was just replying to the notion that manual instantiation is
better than automatic because it avoids having the compiler pick your
functions for you, pointing out that Ada already does that.

> C++ doesn't allow top-down overload resolution,
 > which is an annoying restriction.

Yep. But given all of the automatic type conversions that C++ allows,
most of the time you would wind up in ambiguity land anyway.