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Operator Defining

Oct 8th, 2007

How do you define operators in JAVA? (Can you???)
[prettyplease] help? [/prettyplease]

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Re: Operator Defining

Oct 8th, 2007

No, operator overloading is not possible in Java. The only thing you can do is add methods for the operations you need.

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Re: Operator Defining

Oct 8th, 2007

Okay, num_reasons_why_cpp_better_than_JAVA++;
thanks anyway, Ezzaral.

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Re: Operator Defining

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Originally Posted by venomlash

Okay, num_reasons_why_cpp_better_than_JAVA++;
thanks anyway, Ezzaral.

Well, you are welcome to that opinion of course, but operator overloading isn't really all that special and probably causes more confusion than it's worth. It's syntactic sugar and might save you a couple characters typing, but you can achieve the exact same functionality with methods that perform the operations and no one has to wonder what "+" or "-" does in a given context.