Talk:Operator (computer programming)
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Dispute: Accuracy, Verifiability and Original research
ISO/IEC 2382 The Standard Vocabulary for Information Technology defines 'operator' as a symbol that identifies or represents an operation. It does not limit the symbol to single characters. Thus, '+', 'add', 'first', 'next' could all be operators.
This article lacks citations and appears inaccurate. It appears to confuse the symbol with what the symbol represents. If a citation exists to support this non-standard definition, please provide it and adjust the article to give the standard definition as well to avoid POV.
Otherwise, this article should be changed or rewritten to accurately reflect the standard definition.
Bob Badour 15:05, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Operator features not sorting correctly.
When sorting the 'Operator features in programming languages' by 'Programmer-defined operator symbols'. It doesn't work. Haskell comes first (as Yes) then all the NOs then all the Yes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.102.31.114 (talk) 12:11, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
Beating around the bush
Much of this article is slow to get to the point. Lots of repetition. Lots of word salad. Just one example: "The semantics of operators particularly depends on value, evaluation strategy, and argument passing mode (such as Boolean short-circuiting). Simply, an expression involving an operator is evaluated in some way, and the resulting value may be just a value (an r-value), or may be an object allowing assignment (an l-value)." What does 'particularly' add? What does it mean that semantics depends on value? What is evaluation strategy? What is argument passing mode WRT an operator? What about the second sentence is 'simple'? How did we get to r-value and l-value? What is the point of the whole passage? It's word salad: a bunch of jargon tossed together without much substance. Stevebroshar (talk) 12:02, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
Operator features in programming languages
This whole section should go. Not that it's wrong, but it's OR and overly techy. Stevebroshar (talk) 12:04, 28 January 2025 (UTC)