[Chris_Newton]

Fair enough, perhaps calling the article a troll was a little harsh, as I don’t know how the author intended to come across. However, the article did seem to consist of one weak argument after another: an unlikely strawman problem here, a blatant exaggeration there, a quick logical fallacy to tie them all together. I’m afraid I didn’t find it a convincing case at all.

BTW, I meant my final comment to be parsed as (conveniently discards one of the most obvious demonstrations that operator overloading can be useful) (on the basis that anyone making that argument just doesn’t understand). The author didn’t actually explain why that case was “completely different” or what someone who proposed that example didn’t understand so that “their opinions can be discounted”.

In fact, I would suggest that his entire case about built-in operators being unambiguous even though they support multiple types can be annihilated using only the equality operator and the words “floating point”: in C, you still can’t tell whether the expression a==b is reasonable or almost certainly a bug without knowing the types of a and b, which AFAICS is exactly analogous to the problem the author is so keen to attack with operator overloading.