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External Since: Feb 20, 2005 Posts: 8

> One of my major arguments against operator overloading is that they
> provide a form of "code encryption"- the code x + 1 no longer has
> "obvious" meaning. It's meaning depends upon what type x is.

Like all things in the real world, judicious and appropriate use of features
like operator overloading are perfectly acceptable. It is when people abuse
a feature (such as multiple inheritance or operator overloading) that others
then castigate the feature and not the usage of that feature.

A good for instance is my math library which makes extensive usage of
operator overloading, but in a fashion that (imho) is obvious. An example
of my usage of multiple inheritance is my file and script loaders:
CScriptObject derives from CTextScriptParser, CXMLScriptParser,
CBinaryScriptParser.

WTH

External Since: Nov 23, 2004 Posts: 1

In article <81f0f84e.0408270740.78453c5a DeleteThis @posting.google.com>,
Brian Hurt <bhurt DeleteThis @spnz.org> wrote:
>Alot of the problems also came from the fact that they developed their
>own language. The bugginess, lack of features, lack of optimization,
>buggy GC, etc., were all symptoms of this mistake.

Note: going back and reading the original article, you'll note that
this was for the Playstation 2. There are 5 asymmetric processors in
that machine, each with differing capabilities, etc. The postmortem
said they generated code for each of the processors. I would like to
see a not-internally-developed lisp-like language for such a platform.
And one that can do a commercial game at a decent framerate.

C/C++/Assembly are the only officially supported languages for the
PS2. I give Naughty Dog some credit for trying to go their own way.
However, it does not seem to have been the success story for
functional programming in commercial games that FP's proponents would
like to believe.

Nathan Mates
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