From: Chris Uzdavinis Date: 2001-07-25T23:55:40+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:18535] Re: OO question Avdi Grimm writes: > As a matter of fact, IIRC C++ allows you to achieve the same result > you demonstrated, by overloading the global '+' operator for > arguments of type int. In C++ you can only overload operators when at least one of the operands is a user-defined type (class or enum). However, your point is not lost... C++ does indeed offer pleanty of chances for malicious programmers to remain malicious. -- Chris