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Languages should build in all the numeric types you could ever need, but they don't. A lot of languages still don't have arbitrary-size integers (Swift among them).

You see the vast majority of cases not needing operator overloading and see it as useless, while I see the small number of cases where it's really, really good and see it as important.




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