It might be an absolutely adequate method. Imagine that is C++. operator-- is overloaded and controls some machinery. You can't just command capacity = currSize. Process is important.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, just to say it more clearly: that kind of thing is why lots of people out there insist that operator overloading is a bad idea.

And yeah, it's a C++ thing that mostly doesn't happen in other languages.

[–] TeamAssimilation 2 points 22 hours ago

Sincerely agree. Explicit is better then implicit, that’s a general engineering axiom.

Instead of overloading and making the next maintainer hunt for overloads, a clearly named function that does the critical steps would make the code immensely more maintainable. C++ is C gone wild.

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