Question on Operator Overloading

[sudharsan reddy]

Hi Friends,

Why java doesnot support operator overloading.

Thanks in Advance.

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi there!

From a response at JGuru:

Actually, it does support operator overloading... of a very limited, built-in only nature. For instance "+" is overloaded for String's in addition to the usual arithmetic.

Of course, most people want to know why Java does not support user-defined operator overloading. :-) The simplest answer seems to be that the Java creators did not, at the time, see any clean way to add it to the language without making Java a mess (like C++) in the process.

Anyone else have any in depth knowledge of the decision for this?

[Bablu Gope]

Because of ambiguity , java operator overloading concept is not using in java except String concatenation(+).

[Campbell Ritchie]

If you look in your other thread, you will find that there are other overloaded operators. More details (though probably difficult to read) in the Java® Language Specification. Actually, the newer editions of the JLS don't use the term overloading.

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