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Re: What is "complexifying" C?

From Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: What is "complexifying" C?
Date 2015-03-17 00:05 +0100
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On 16 Mar 2015 22:56:27 GMT
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:

> jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> writes:
> >Operator overloading SIMPLIFIES THE COMPILER AND THE LANGUAGE since
> >it proposes a SINGLE mechanism that would allow users to implement
> >their own number types without adding the enormous complexity of
> >integrating all those numbers into the compiler itself.
> 
>   When one writes operator overloading code such as 
>   (pseudocode with meaningless dummy implementations):
> 
> void -( _Complex x ){ x.re = -x.re; x.im = -x.im; return; }
> 
> void +( _Complex x ){ x.re = +x.re; x.im = +x.im; return; }
> 
>   one actually is writing a class (a user-defined type). One
>   could also write this with the following syntax (pseudocode):
> 
> class _Complex
> { void -(){ this.re = -this.re; this.im = -this.im; }
>   void +(){ this.re = +this.re; this.im = +this.im; }}
> 
>   . But the identity of the language C is defined by *not*
>   supporting classes, otherwise it would become C++ or
>   objective C, which both already exist.
> 

You are wrong. This is just syntactic sugar for ordinary function.
Only difference is that in case of named function no syntactic sugar
is involved. One particular thing on operator overloading is
name mangling that have to be done.
Allowing operator overloading, but not function overloading,
restricts name mangling only to operator functions, which is good.

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What is "complexifying"  C? jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2015-03-16 22:55 +0100
  Re: What is "complexifying"  C? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-03-16 22:55 +0000
    Re: What is "complexifying"  C? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-03-16 16:41 -0700
      Re: What is "complexifying"  C? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-03-17 00:05 +0000
      Re: What is "complexifying"  C? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-03-17 01:12 +0000
      Re: What is "complexifying"  C? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-03-25 13:58 -0700
    Re: What is "complexifying"  C? jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2015-03-17 07:16 +0100
      Re: What is "complexifying"  C? Greg Martin <greg.at.softsprocket@dot.com> - 2015-03-17 13:50 +0000
        Re: What is "complexifying"  C? jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2015-03-17 14:59 +0100
          Re: What is "complexifying" C? jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2015-03-17 15:22 +0100
            Re: What is "complexifying" C? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-03-17 16:16 +0100
          Re: What is "complexifying"  C? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-03-17 14:39 +0000
          Re: What is "complexifying"  C? Greg Martin <greg.at.softsprocket@dot.com> - 2015-03-17 15:23 +0000
        Re: What is "complexifying"  C? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-03-18 15:40 -0700
        Re: What is "complexifying"  C? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-03-18 22:49 +0000
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            Re: What is "complexifying" C? Greg Martin <greg.at.softsprocket@dot.com> - 2015-03-19 15:37 +0000
              Re: What is "complexifying" C? jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-03-19 23:06 +0100
                Re: What is "complexifying" C? Greg Martin <greg.at.softsprocket@dot.com> - 2015-03-19 22:38 +0000
                Re: What is "complexifying" C? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-03-20 19:43 +1300
                Re: What is "complexifying" C? jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-03-20 07:49 +0100
                Re: What is "complexifying" C? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-03-20 02:29 -0500
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                Re: What is "complexifying" C? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-03-22 11:16 -0700
                Re: What is "complexifying" C? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-03-23 07:25 +1300
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                Re: What is "complexifying" C? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-03-22 19:32 +0100
                Re: What is "complexifying" C? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-03-22 17:34 -0500
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                Re: What is "complexifying" C? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-03-23 17:06 +1300
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                Re: What is "complexifying" C? Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-03-22 02:38 +0100
                Re: What is "complexifying" C? Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-03-22 09:11 -0400
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                Re: What is "complexifying" C? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-03-20 10:31 +0000
                Re: What is "complexifying" C? Greg Martin <greg.at.softsprocket@dot.com> - 2015-03-20 13:49 +0000
                Re: What is "complexifying" C? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-03-20 09:23 -0700
                Re: What is "complexifying" C? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-03-21 08:28 +1300
                Re: What is "complexifying" C? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-03-20 01:04 -0700
    Re: What is "complexifying"  C? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-17 08:05 -0700
      Re: What is "complexifying"  C? jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2015-03-17 16:08 +0100
        Re: What is "complexifying"  C? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-17 11:09 -0700
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  Re: What is "complexifying" C? Greg Martin <greg.at.softsprocket@dot.com> - 2015-03-16 23:20 +0000
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  Re: What is "complexifying"  C? Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2015-03-17 08:59 -0500
    Re: What is "complexifying"  C? jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2015-03-17 15:18 +0100
    Re: What is "complexifying"  C? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-03-17 14:41 +0000
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        Re: What is "complexifying"  C? Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-03-19 00:26 +0000
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