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Operator overloading
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2016–2024), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Operator overloading, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Operator-named functions are hard to read, impossible to search, and produce unreadable error messages2024-06-12
- Overloaded operator makes code confusing; reader can't tell why stream feeds into a function2018-12-07
- Assignment with = becomes unclear, e.g. pandas views into dataframes behave unintuitively2018-10-25
- Symbolic operators are hard to use, compared to icon-only buttons on web pages2016-07-14