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From: "Nicolas Pouillard" <nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Custom operators in the revised syntax
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On 5/11/07, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> On Friday 11 May 2007 15:15, Loup Vaillant wrote:
> > I tend to agree when one says custom operators are evil. However, when
> > the default syntax uses operators, the custom ones are a net win : a
> > wise programmer will use their semantic load carefully (big nums, for
> > example)
>
> Ints, nats, floats, complexes, quaternions, column and row vectors, matrices,
> tensors, inner and outer products, symbolic expressions... This is why I like
> operator overloading.
>
> For example, Smoke has the multiplications: * (int), *. (float), *| (vector
> scaling), *|| (matrix-vector transform) and *||| (matrix-matrix multiply).
>
> Operator overloading and template metaprogramming were the only things I
> missed moving from C++ to OCaml. :-)

But having these custom operators reduce the pain, right?

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard
who also likes overloading and meta-programming....