Yes, one can use this form, but this is still not a replacement for being able to implement linear algebra based algorithms in a readable fashion. What was the original reason for not allowing ...

Operator overloading or ad-hoc polymorphism lets you work with user defined types much the same way you work with fundamental data types Polymorphism is one of the basic principles of OOP (Object ...

I wasn't party to the original decision, but there's been a RFE discussion running since 2003 which captures a lot of the pros and cons at http://bugs.sun.com ...