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No, operator overloading is not a feature of Go.
Rust allows for a limited form of operator overloading. There are certain operators that are able to be overloaded. To support a particular operator between types, there's a specific trait that you can implement, which then overloads the operator.
Python supports both function and operator overloading. In function overloading, we can use the same name for many Python functions but with the different number or types of parameters. With operator overloading, we are able to change the meaning of a Python operator within the scope of a class.
C++ lets you specify more than one function of the same name in the same scope. These functions are called overloaded functions, or overloads.
No it does not.
See the Go Language FAQ, and specifically the section on overloading.
Method dispatch is simplified if it doesn't need to do type matching as well. Experience with other languages told us that having a variety of methods with the same name but different signatures was occasionally useful but that it could also be confusing and fragile in practice. Matching only by name and requiring consistency in the types was a major simplifying decision in Go's type system.
Update: 2016-04-07
While Go still does not have overloaded functions (and probably never will), the most useful feature of overloading, that of calling a function with optional arguments and inferring defaults for those omitted can be simulated using a variadic function, which has since been added. But this comes at the loss of type checking.
For example: http://changelog.ca/log/2015/01/30/golang
According to this, it doesn't: http://golang.org/doc/go_for_cpp_programmers.html
In the Conceptual Differences section, it says:
"Go does not support function overloading and does not support user defined operators."
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