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- From: bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: The fate of my exponentiation operator proposal
- Message-ID: <24185@alice.att.com>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 06:54:23 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24185
- References: <MATT.92Nov12234242@physics16.berkeley.edu> <HF.92Nov13112407@whyaduck.telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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- hf@telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Harald Fuchs @ Karlsruhe University, Germany) writes
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- > Hey, since the predecessor of C++, ``C with Classes'', didn't provide
- > operator overloading _except_ for operator=, this might have been the
- > way the language evolved. Maybe someone from AT&T can comment on this?
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- The story is of course somewhat longer than this, but yes, operator overloading
- and overloading in general in C++ started with overloading of assignment and
- initialization.
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