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Scala treats all operators as methods and thus allows operator overloading by proxy. In Raku, the definition of all operators is delegated to lexical functions, and so, using function definitions, operators can be overloaded or new operators added. For example, the function defined in the Rakudo source for incrementing a Date object with "+" is:
Augmented assignment or compound assignment operators: For example, a += b is equivalent to a = a + b in C and similar languages, assuming a has no side effects such as if a is a regular variable. [5] [6] Some languages, such as Python [7] may allow overloading augmented assignment operators, so they may behave differently than standard ones.
All logical operators exist in C and C++ and can be overloaded in C++, albeit the overloading of the logical AND and logical OR is discouraged, because as overloaded operators they behave as ordinary function calls, which means that both of their operands are evaluated, so they lose their well-used and expected short-circuit evaluation property ...
In languages that support operator overloading by the programmer (such as C++) but have a limited set of operators, operator overloading is often used to define customized uses for operators. In the example IF ORDER_DATE > "12/31/2011" AND ORDER_DATE < "01/01/2013" THEN CONTINUE ELSE STOP , the operators are: > (greater than), AND and < (less ...
Ad hoc polymorphism is a dispatch mechanism: control moving through one named function is dispatched to various other functions without having to specify the exact function being called. Overloading allows multiple functions taking different types to be defined with the same name; the compiler or interpreter automatically ensures that the right ...
Function overloading is usually associated with statically-typed programming languages that enforce type checking in function calls. An overloaded function is a set of different functions that are callable with the same name. For any particular call, the compiler determines which overloaded function to use and resolves this at compile time ...
I think the key point is that operators have implicit associativity and priority rules. The notatonal convention is irrelevant. As such, Lisp doesn't have operators at all, it has only functions. I think some distinction has to be made between function/method overloading and operator overloading. --Tweenk 12:53, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
Any type t can be made a member of a given type class C by using an instance declaration that defines implementations of all of C's methods for the particular type t. For example, if a new data type t is defined, this new type can be made an instance of Eq by providing an equality function over values of type t in any way that is useful.