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''Main article: [[Operator overloading]]''

In some programming languages an operator may work with more than one kind of data, (such as in [[Java programming language|Java]] where the <tt>+</tt> operator is used both for the addition of numbers and for the concatenation of strings). Such an operator is said to be ''overloaded''. In languages that support operator overloading by the programmer, such as [[C plus plus|C++]], one can define customized uses for operators; in [[Prolog]], one can also define new operators.

== Operand coercion ==