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0 pointsadontz2y ago0 comments

>> operator overloading means that when you are reading unfamiliar code, you can never be sure what functions might be called.

This just means abstraction were abused. Which as I said, they can be. Nevertheless most popular programming languages (C++, C#, Python, Java, etc.) have overloaded operators, you can write "hello " + "world" (or equivalent) in any of these languages.

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defen2y ago· 2 in thread

Where does the memory for the combined string come from? Even if Zig had operator overloading it's not clear how a runtime `string1 + string2` could work.

adontzOP2y ago

Something like this would do https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/named_req/Allocator

defen2y ago

In practice what would the actual code look like (pseudo-code is fine). How would I concatenate strings at runtime using `+`, once with one allocator and then again with another allocator?

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