What's the most hilarious use of operator overloading you've seen?

• Open-Source Vulkan C++ API

  36 2,911 9.1 C++

  Open-Source Vulkan C++ API

  

For a real-life example: consider the vk::raii namespace of Vulkan-Hpp, where the developers have posted examples. The vk::raii::su namespace has a bunch of free functions that one might think are associated with a Vulkan instance/object (in fact, the Vulkan Tutorial does implement them as member functions), but they are much nicer when used as pure functions. It keeps the class/struct definition itself nice and clean.

• compile-time-regular-expressions

  26 3,157 7.5 C++

  Compile Time Regular Expression in C++

operator"" can be used in a similar way to expression templates (DSLs), where the type of the resulting expression is dependent on the string contents. For example ctre makes use of this to build efficient regular expression parsers, and kumi uses this in conjunction with operator[] to make tuple indexing quite elegant

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• kumi

  1 41 6.3 C++

  C++20 Compact Tuple Tools

operator"" can be used in a similar way to expression templates (DSLs), where the type of the resulting expression is dependent on the string contents. For example ctre makes use of this to build efficient regular expression parsers, and kumi uses this in conjunction with operator[] to make tuple indexing quite elegant

• FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition

  329 20,480 0.0 Java

  FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition is a no-nonsense implementation of FizzBuzz made by serious businessmen for serious business purposes.

  

And there's a reason why FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition is a meme. OOP where OOP shouldn't exist is what is causing unnecessary pain to everyone.

• hissp

  29 331 9.1 Python

  It's Python with a Lissp.

If you want Python to be as customizable as Lissp, check out Hissp (and Hebigo).

• hebigo

  21 21 1.9 Python

  蛇語(HEH-bee-go): An indentation-based skin for Hissp.

If you want Python to be as customizable as Lissp, check out Hissp (and Hebigo).

• IdOp

  1 4 10.0 C

  C++ Custom Operator Library

github was only a year old when I made this and it didn't become popular until a few years later. I do have it there but all the docs are hosted on my site https://github.com/cogwheel/IdOp

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