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From: David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca>
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On 21/07/2011 8:32 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> supercalifragilisticexpialadiamaticonormalizeringelimatisticantations<supercalifragilisticexpialadiamaticonormalizeringelimatisticantations@averylongandannoyingdomainname.com>  wrote:
>> On 21/07/2011 6:05 AM, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>>> ... Why don't you write a proper class for your data type?
>> In four words: Lack of operator overloading.
>> Math on non-primitive types is *painful* in Java.
>
> agreeCount = agreeCount.plus(AgreeCount.ONE)
>      on painfulness of non-primitive math.
>

or if you think ++ is common enough:
   agreeCount.increment();
and generally
   agreeCount.add(someOtherAgreeCount)
and if you decide to have your operators return "this"
   ac0.mul(ac1).plus(ac2)) // ac0 = ac0*ac1+ac2
or
   ac = (new AgreeCount(ac0)).mul(ac1).plus(ac2) // ac = ac0*ac1+ac2