Pavel Minayev wrote:

> He said "user-defined", not "built-in".
> For user-defined, I guess we can live with fixed precedence,
> using braces where necessary...

Right.  I would say that any overloading of standard operators (with or without the :'s that have been suggested) should have the same precedence and left-to-right orientation as the original operators.  But user-defined infix operators of this type should all have left-to-right orientation with relatively low precedence.

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"Russ Lewis" <spamhole-2001-07-16@deming-os.org> wrote in message news:3C70B980.E4FD2FA1@deming-os.org...
> Pavel Minayev wrote:
>
> > He said "user-defined", not "built-in".
> > For user-defined, I guess we can live with fixed precedence,
> > using braces where necessary...
>
> Right.  I would say that any overloading of standard operators (with or without the :'s that have been suggested) should have the same precedence and left-to-right orientation as the original operators.  But user-defined infix operators of this type should all have left-to-right orientation with relatively low precedence.
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Oh I'm sorry, I understood wrong.
I think user defined infix operations would be cool and I
could live with fixed left to right precedence without a
problem. I thought it was proposed as a substitution for
overloading the standard operators, but I agree that you
shouldn't mess with the precedence of + and *, or many
people will be very confused and that can't be what we
are aiming at with operator overloading.


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