------- Comment #24 from bangerth at dealii dot org 2006-04-20 18:16 ------- (In reply to comment #23) > Actually I don't see why the comma operator can be overridden in C++ (yes this > I am raising a question about why the standards says it can).
It was mid-March when Stroustrup developed operator overloading. The draft was finished March 31th, and the next day he didn't know what to do and thought of adding something to the language appropriate for the day. Just like this, a few years later: http://public.research.att.com/~bs/whitespace98.pdf W. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26974
