What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

Marshall marshall.spight at gmail.com
Fri Jun 23 17:52:59 EDT 2006


Darren New wrote:
> Marshall wrote:
> > I can't see how you'd call + on a and b if you think they might
> > not be numbers.
>
> Now substitute "<" for "+" and see if you can make the same argument. :-)

If your point is about overloading, then I don't see how it affects my
point. My point was, I don't see why you'd be writing code using
operators that you thought might not be applicable to the operands.


Marshall




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