no operator overloading in java? tell it to + operator

Lets begin with the wikipedia definition of operator overloading.

In computer programming, operator overloading (less commonly known as operator ad-hoc polymorphism) is a specific case of polymorphism in which some or all of operators like +, =, or == have different implementations depending on the types of their arguments.

It's generally thought that Java does not support operator overloading which is not true.
Take a look at + operator.

  int two = 2;
  int six = 6;
  
  int sum = two + six;
  
  System.out.println(sum); // output is 8
 

Quite expected right? I give two operands (two and six) and + operator adds them together. What if I use strings as operands?

  String a = "avenged";
  String b = "sevenfold";
  
  String result = a + b;
  
  System.out.println(result); // output: avengedsevenfold

+ operator concatenates two strings. As you can easily see + operator has different implementations depending on the type of operands.
Now, lets take a look at some gotchas of the + operator.
What if I mix different types of operands?

  int two = 2;
  int six = 6;
  
  String str = "depechemode";
  
  System.out.println(two + six + str);
  
  System.out.println(two + str + six);
  
  System.out.println(str + two + six);

The outputs are quite interesting. Let me explain you how it's processed. From left to right it's inspected if there are any strings as operands. As long as I don't see a string I treat + as addition but when I see one I begin to treat every subsequent operand as strings and I concatenate them.

So I have two + six which are two integers. I add them together which makes 8. Then I see a string and treat 8 as a string and concatenate it with str which in result gives "8depechemode".

Later I have two + str. str is a String so two will be treated like one. As I saw a string I treat all of the rest as strings and concat them. The result is "2depechemode6".

For the last example, we see a string as the first operand. We will begin treating every operand as strings and concat them so I'll have "depechemode26" as result.

I hope that everything is clear for + operator and its overloading capabilities.