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Overloading - Syntactic Heroin?Ehud, theoretically on vacation, emailed me a link to an article from the June ACM Queue, Syntactic Heroin:
It's focused on overloading in C++, and in particular the problems that can arise with implicit conversions, both built-in and programmer-defined. The author concludes that this is all a very bad idea, although to my disappointment, he doesn't explore more disciplined approaches to "overloading" in languages that are less conversion-happy, such as parameterized higher-order modules in functional languages, or Haskell's typeclasses. |
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