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  • ok, but that argumentation would just as well be true for overloads to Equals() or ToString() or | or ... ? Commented Feb 13, 2012 at 16:44
  • Incidentally, vb6 did allow one to effectively override the assignment operator in some cases; one would use Set xxx=yyy if one wanted reference assignment. That led to some truly hideous semantics when applied to variant types. Commented Jun 7, 2012 at 22:14