Operator overloading for collections?

[Brian Goetz]

OK, my bad here.  I read this as “I am _now_ writing this to try to change your mind” (I can only imagine my brain saw the `w` on the front of “writing” and did a branch mispredict), rather than what you actually wrote.  I will go and reread what you wrote with this in mind...

> On Sep 1, 2025, at 5:43 PM, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> I'm not writing this to try to change your mind. I know your take on this is clear. But for the sake of the open discussion I'm writing this in defense of the great (not new) proposal. 
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> First, let me point out that we have now strayed WAY outside of the charter of amber-dev, from “curious question about will X ever happen” (which is in the “tolerably off topic” category) to “let me lobby for a massive change in language evolution approach.”  
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>> But enough with the foreword. I think the numbers are special argument is pretty weak and falls apart as soon as you look at it.
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> Then perhaps it is a mistake to even consider operator overloading at all.  If this is how enough people feel — that supporting numbers only is so bad that it is worse than doing nothing — then we have to seriously consider doing nothing. 
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