Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: looping through a list, starting at 1 Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:51:35 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <8djj37pg6o35jb1b8lskefb4jmb2iadmbe@4ax.com> <4e3a5a4c$0$2527$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> <9a04aaFp76U1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 00:52:09 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="f8igmItKsWs6nM5YanFxAA"; logging-data="22966"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/w8m1O8zCdolmJgDboozGS" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:jkLM8M2zt4fxhVTGkRTTIEfRQZs= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6799 On 8/4/2011 4:58 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > On 8/4/2011 11:27 AM, markspace wrote: >> On 8/4/2011 10:47 AM, Chris Riesbeck wrote: >>> In C++, an >>> overloaded postfix ++ >>> >> See? This is why I'm against any kind of operator overloading in Java. >> Too much stupid out there. > > So what operator should have been used for String concatenation, instead > of overloading "+"? (Aside: I know of a language that used "||" for this purpose.) This "overload" is feeble at best: "+" is overloaded six ways, "-" five, "*", "/", "%", "++", "--", "<", "<=", ">", and ">=" four each. "==" and "!=" and "=" and "." and "instanceof" are overloaded to an infinite degree (countable, I think). So what? -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid