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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: why learn C?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:32:20 -0400
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:

> The C++ code has no pointers at all. The automatic instantiation done by
> the C++ template mechanism is similar in its goals to Ada's operator
> overloading. A universe of candidate functions is searched through a rules
> system that picks one best choice or reports an error.

Operator overloading is just one subset of subprogram overloading --
there's nothing special about operators, except they use a different
notation.  The same is true in C++, although C++ doesn't allow
top-down overload resolution, which is an annoying restriction.

- Bob