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[โ€“] [email protected] 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, that's a very useful exception.