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Operator Overloading in JavaScript, yes you can!

Adam Crockett 🌀 on January 07, 2020

It struck me that it would be nice to have some form of ByteString in JavaScript utilizing TextEncoder but instead of having some fancy newing up a...
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૮༼⚆︿⚆༽つ

I wonder if it still work for vector operation 🤔

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Adam Crockett 🌀

I thought about it again, I remember the problem with vector 3 or vector 4 sizes, you need to retain all 4 or 3 values and represent them as a type in such a way that the plus can be used, eg string and number, and then re translate them back to vectors again, it sounds like a fun challenge, let me know if you try it

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Adam Crockett 🌀

It has been a long time but I think I have a vector implementation

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૮༼⚆︿⚆༽つ • Edited

How do you detect what kind operation it is (e.g +, *) by just listening on valueOf()?

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Here we go, the very technical details
2ality.com/2011/12/fake-operator-o...

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Details of that are here 2ality.com/2011/12/fake-operator-o...

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Swastik Baranwal

You wrote Oporator instead of Operator.

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Dyslexia, so I meant whatever 😁

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diek

Oporator it's really nice, I will call oporator to all my tests of this kind of weirdo programming. Ty for inspiring me xD

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Adam Crockett 🌀

You are most welcome 🤪

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Mike Stay

You might enjoy this, then:
reperiendi.wordpress.com/2020/08/3...

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Jon Randy 🎖️

ooooooh!