Operator overloading of native types?

[H. S. Teoh]

I'd like to overload the '*' operator to work with string arguments. Is
it possible? I tried the following, but apparently operator overloading
doesn't work at the package level?

	string opBinary(string op)(string repeatMe, int thisManyTimes)
		if (op=="*")
	{
		auto app = appender!string();
		while (thisManyTimes > 0) {
			app.put(repeatMe);
			thisManyTimes--;
		}
		return app.data;
	}

	void main() {
		writeln("spam" * 3);	// compile error
	}

Or is this just a very bad idea? ;-)


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