language (Or "Operator overloading"). Use of a single
symbol to represent operators with different argument types,
e.g. "-", used either, as a
monadic operator to negate an
expression, or as a
dyadic operator to return the difference
between two expressions. Another example is "+" used to add
User-defined operator overloading is provided by several
modern programming languages, e.g.
C++'s
class system and
(1995-04-30)