can i overload

Double::div

? i'd like for it to return

0.0

when dividing by

0.0

in this scope

you could create a

safeDiv

method without the benefit of an operator

yeah, i can, but it's a shame i can't just overload it

overloading means subclassing

what's the term for overriding a function in a scope, then?

sorry, i meant overriding the first time overriding means a parent-child relationship and the child overrides the behavior of the parent that’s what you want: you have a class

Double

a function

div()

and you want to change its behavior this is not possible... unless you create your own subclass of

Double

and it’s final

That would be called shadowing but it's not possible: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/extensions.html#extensions-are-resolved-statically