They allow you to use the “+” operator to concatenate instances of the String class and they also have the “concat” method which basically does the same thing but it’s my guess that 99% of all ActionScripters use “+” rather than “concat” because it makes more sense to them. I’m looking for the same sort of ~sensibility~ in the point class.

Do you think this feature would require the EcmaScript standard to be modified?

But for now, I think it’s for the better. A major advantage of AS3 over languages such as C++ is that you have to invest less time toward learning the language, which reduces the learning curve. Web languages (what I call AS3 and its brethren) are an opportunity for the masses to take up programming, and language features such as operator overloading might unnecessarily complicate AS3.

Besides, aren’t getters and setters enough? If you want to overload an operator, nothing can prevent you from creating a function such as add() or subtract().

Can you still use “+” to concatenate strings in AS3? If Adobe won’t let me override the operators, maybe there’s a chance they’ll add a new feature allowing us to use operators on to the Point class.

The AS3 language is really powerful compared to AS2 but there are still a few little things missing that would make it better, operator overloading being one of them!

So using operators on an actual class instance is a no – but you did mention using operators on class members. If the particular class member is an instance of a class the closest you could get is by using the get/set methods to allow custom accessor/mutator functions for that member.