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Switching to OCaml bois (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by TheDuffmaster@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] englislanguage@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Operator overloading is adding complexity, making code subtly harder to read. The most important lesson for code is: It should primarily be written to be easy to read by humans because if code is not trash, it will be read way more often than written.

[–] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would argue that there are very definitely cases where operator overloading can make code more clear: Specifically when you are working with some custom data type for which different mathematical operations are well defined.

[–] englislanguage@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, that's a very useful exception.