• englislanguage@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    Operator overloading is adding complexity, making code subtly harder to read. The most important lesson for code is: It should primarily be written to be easy to read by humans because if code is not trash, it will be read way more often than written.

    • CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz
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      5 months ago

      I would argue that there are very definitely cases where operator overloading can make code more clear: Specifically when you are working with some custom data type for which different mathematical operations are well defined.