Re: Operator overloading

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From: Zacharias Beckman
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 1990 20:42

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In article <1990Dec14.155211.6598@mprgate.mpr.ca> murphy@photon.mpr.ca writes:
>Does Objective-C support operator overloading?
>
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Nope; Objective-C is not capable of overloading per the definition of the word
if you are coming from C++.  I.e.:

  Overloading allows multiple functions with the same name to be defined
  provided their argument lists differ sufficiently for calls to be resolved.
  (ARM pp. 307).

In other words, you can't overload a function, method or operator in
Objective-C.  It's unfortunate -- I really miss this capability, particularly
in method overloading.

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