Editing Operator overloading (section)

===1990s===
[[Java (programming language)|Java]] language designers at [[Sun Microsystems]] chose to omit overloading.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cafeaulait.org/javafaq.html#xtocid1902938 |website=The comp.lang.java FAQ List |title=FAQ Question 6.9: Why isn't there operator overloading?}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://java.sun.com/docs/white/langenv/Simple.doc2.html |title=java.sun.com |url-status=dead |access-date=26 March 2009 |archive-date=7 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307035128/http://java.sun.com/docs/white/langenv/Simple.doc2.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Holzner |first=Steven |title=C++: Black Book |year=2001 |publisher=Coriolis Group |location=Scottsdale, Arizona |isbn=1-57610-777-9 |page=387 |quote=One of the nicest features of C++ OOP is that you can overload operators to handle objects of your classes (you can't do this in some other OOP-centric languages, like Java).}}</ref>

[[Python (programming language)|Python]] allows operator overloading through the implementation of methods with special names.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#specialnames |website=The Python Language Reference |title=3. Data Model, Special method names}}</ref> For example, the addition (+) operator can be overloaded by implementing the method {{code|obj.__add__(self, other)}}.

[[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]] allows operator overloading as syntactic sugar for simple method calls.

[[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] allows operator overloading as syntactic sugar for method calls with the added feature that if the first operand doesn't define that operator, the method for the second operand will be used.