Re: (OT) Re: memory management

[Christian Reiniger <warewolf@mayn.de>]

Steve Baker wrote:

>Overloading is OK - (great in fact) - but OPERATOR overloading is evil
>because
>it can result in people writing code that leads you to believe you
>understand
>it when in fact you don't.

class foo
{
  int value;

public:
  void GetValue () { return 42; }
  void Add (int i) { value = -i; }
  void Reset ()    { value = -value; }
}


Sorry, couldn't resist. With your argumentation you'd have to ban free
method naming ;)  Every feature can be misused. And if used properly,
operator overloading is very useful.


	Christian
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