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fooker • today at 9:18 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

And just in case you have not come across this, C++ allows you you overload all the relevant operators here: [], *, ->

So, you really can't tell what's going on behind the scenes.

I wanted to pull my hair out seeing some 'enterprise' code use

  state[i] = foo;
for some kind of logging where i was the severity level. There were even instances of state[i++], where the severity was incremental. I hope someone has rewritten that codebase with AI by now.

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BeetleB • today at 2:37 PM

So you would be equally critical of overloading [] for maps?

Sorry, hard for me to relate, as I've overloaded [] (in, say, Python) to make life easy on everyone. People loved it.

I hope you're aware that there is a long standing debate on whether overloading operators is good/bad, and it comes down to personal preference?

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