Name: rmT116609 Date: 08/13/2003


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
There is an intensive discussion about adding operator overloading to the java language

Please also see:

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4087427.html

JUSTIFICATION :
This post is made to give the people the chance to discuss and vote.
(Incident Review ID: 199033)
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Name: rmT116609 Date: 08/12/2004


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
Even though there's a sort of JVM operator overloading (see toString or the == in enum), this language feature is still missing as a general language extension.


JUSTIFICATION :
Operator overloading can be avoided using functions, of course, but there are cases where the code become more readable, simpler and self-documenting.
I do know all the pros and cons about this, but as I heard similar things for some of the new great improvement on the way with 1.5, I don't see why the operator overloading has been left apart.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
The behaviour would be much like the normal c++ behaviour.
ACTUAL -
No behaviour can be described as it's a non permitted syntax expression.

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
public class MultiTierApp {
...
}

public class Tier1 implements Tier {
}

public class Tier2 implements Tier {
}

MultiTierApp mta = (new Tier1) + (new Tier2);
---------- END SOURCE ----------
(Review ID: 296755)
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