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by gpderetta
734 days ago
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So you would have different, say, distinct division operators for each of u8, u16, u32, u64, u128 and their signed variant, for each floating point type, complex numbers (and all their underlying variants), quaternions, etc? You might quickly run out of operator soup. |
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We have two arguably distinct operations so we might want two operators, but you have instead invented a plethora, seeming to understand that somehow the operators ought to depend on the type, which is part of the original mistake.
(5 // 2 == 2) whereas (5 / 2 == 2.5) those are two distinct operations
In many places Rust for example chooses to provide multiple operations but to only grant the most C-like operation an operator, e.g. (-15_i32).div_euclid(2) is -8 that's Euclidean division but (-15_i32) / (2) is -7 as you'd likely expect in C