Re: 3.2.x

[Michael Goffioul]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:32 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> That would be best, but I'm just saying that I don't think it is
> necessary to have everything perfect for a release.  If we require
> that, then we will never have releases.

I didn't mean "perfect", but "complete". Something like the
graphics code without image rendering, or OO support without
operator overloading.

> The OO features that are present now are sufficient for the people who
> supported the work.  So far, I haven't seen a lot of people trying to
> use the new features and telling us that they are incomplete.
>
> In any case, operator overloading does work, at least for user-defined
> types.  What does not work is overloading operations for built-in
> types, and we have not decided what to do about these operations in
> relation to constant folding in the parser.  If anyone is interested
> in the issues, then I think we should start a separate thread for that
> discussion.

Does this mean you can already overload operators like '==' or '*'
for user-defined types? I thought this was not possible yet.

Michael.