Troll Alert: Operator overloading a mistake?

[E. Robert Tisdale]

Something that calls itself Paul Fame wrote:
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> In my University course teaching Java, my lecturer just claimed that
> operator overloading in C++ was a mistake and that
> Java's lack of operator overloading was a "big step forward".
>
> Can anyone else provide counter-arguments to this,
> to prove I am still sane?[/color]

This is an obvious troll.
Please ignore it.

[David White]

Re: Troll Alert: Operator overloading a mistake?

E. Robert Tisdale <E.Robert.Tisda le@jpl.nasa.gov > wrote in message
news:3F1B7782.9 090508@jpl.nasa .gov...[color=blue]
> Something that calls itself Paul Fame wrote:
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> > In my University course teaching Java, my lecturer just claimed that
> > operator overloading in C++ was a mistake and that
> > Java's lack of operator overloading was a "big step forward".
> >
> > Can anyone else provide counter-arguments to this,
> > to prove I am still sane?[/color]
>
> This is an obvious troll.
> Please ignore it.[/color]

I did look for the signs before replying, but didn't see it as necessarily a
troll. I don't regard the e-mail address as evidence, since I use a junk
address myself.

My troll-spotting education must have some way to go.

DW

[E. Robert Tisdale]

Re: Troll Alert: Operator overloading a mistake?

David White wrote:
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> E. Robert Tisdale wrote:
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>>Something that calls itself Paul Fame wrote:
>>
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>>>In my University course teaching Java, my lecturer just claimed that
>>>operator overloading in C++ was a mistake and that
>>>Java's lack of operator overloading was a "big step forward".
>>>
>>>Can anyone else provide counter-arguments to this,
>>>to prove I am still sane?[/color]
>>
>>This is an obvious troll.
>>Please ignore it.[/color]
>
> I did look for the signs before replying
> but didn't see it as necessarily a troll.
> I don't regard the e-mail address as evidence
> since I use a junk address myself.
>
> My troll-spotting education must have some way to go.[/color]

I think that Paul Fame should ask its lecturer
to post its assertions to comp.lang.c++ directly. ;-)

This notion that you are going to give Paul Fame "ammunition "
to fire back at its lecturer seems a bit absurd to me.
Don't you agree? ;-)

[David White]

Re: Troll Alert: Operator overloading a mistake?

E. Robert Tisdale <E.Robert.Tisda le@jpl.nasa.gov > wrote in message
news:3F1B89E5.4 0100@jpl.nasa.g ov...[color=blue]
> David White wrote:
>[color=green]
> > E. Robert Tisdale wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> >>Something that calls itself Paul Fame wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>In my University course teaching Java, my lecturer just claimed that
> >>>operator overloading in C++ was a mistake and that
> >>>Java's lack of operator overloading was a "big step forward".
> >>>
> >>>Can anyone else provide counter-arguments to this,
> >>>to prove I am still sane?
> >>
> >>This is an obvious troll.
> >>Please ignore it.[/color]
> >
> > I did look for the signs before replying
> > but didn't see it as necessarily a troll.
> > I don't regard the e-mail address as evidence
> > since I use a junk address myself.
> >
> > My troll-spotting education must have some way to go.[/color]
>
> I think that Paul Fame should ask its lecturer
> to post its assertions to comp.lang.c++ directly. ;-)
>
> This notion that you are going to give Paul Fame "ammunition "
> to fire back at its lecturer seems a bit absurd to me.
> Don't you agree? ;-)[/color]

I concede that if I wanted to post a troll, this is probably the kind of
thing I'd post. I suppose that I don't like to assume a troll if there's any
chance that it isn't.

DW