Ehh, there are good and bad uses. Yes, dot product should not be overloaded asterisk operator because elementwise multiplication of vectors is a thing, and also

Ehh, there are good and bad uses. Yes, dot product should not be overloaded asterisk operator because elementwise multiplication of vectors is a thing, and also if you overload multiplication for matrices then dot product should be u-transpose-times-v for consistency. But what about vector addition? There's no ambiguity. Try writing any 3d graphics code without overloaded vector addition. It sucks. I generally disagree with people who dislike a language feature only because of its abuse potential. Good programmers should not have to suffer for the sake of damage controlling bad programmers. Edit: I do think it's stupid to make the identity-equals operator overloadable. Identity-equals and value-equals are separate concepts. In C++ this isn't an issue because == is the value-equals operator.