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How helpful languages create bugs (10maurycy10.github.io)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. I think operator overloading is a necessary feature in any math-oriented or general-purpose language. Being able to write formulae the same way as they're written in the source paper is a huge boon to readability.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Totally agree, trying to use BigInt in Java sucks because there's no operator overloading