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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Arithmetic overflow checking
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lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> wrote:
> While not as compact as operator overloading, this technique provides
> a way to ameliorate the matching problem to which Patricia alluded, at
> least partially, within the current capabilities of Java.

a.plus(b).mul(c)     (let's assume them all to be non-mutating methods)
might bear some surprises, but geniuses like Lew won't fall for it,
and others aren't supposed to do professional programming in Java,
anyway ;-)

> We also must consider Patricia's other sage advice to consider other
> languages for problem domains for which Java is not ideal.

I followed that advice long before it was made.  I used Tcl (8.5) for
my large-integer tasks.