Quote: the name of a CLU operation is always 't$o' where 't' is a type name; avoids overloading and enhances program correctness and readability

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We wanted a uniform rule [for naming operations] that applied … complicated rules to resolve overloading (e.g., as in … being called, for example, 's: set[int] = set[int]$create()' In doing so, we eliminated overloading altogether: the name of … and o is its name within its type. … [p. 491] (to my surprise, [users] even like the …   Google-1   Google-2

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