Can I call the default opAssign after overloading opAssign?

[Rob T]

On Saturday, 24 November 2012 at 20:47:17 UTC, Era Scarecrow 
wrote:
>> This kind of behavior *really* needs to be documented in 
>> precise detail, it's rather critical to know.
>
>  It IS documented. TDPL - pg. 248
> [quote]

Thanks for pointing out where the postblit stuff is documented. 
When I first started learning the language, I did read that part 
a few times over, but I found it frustratingly hard to grasp. I 
will re-read that section again.

TDPL is a good book, but it is not the official spec, nor is it 
even a spec, it's a book that covers some aspects of how to use 
the language. How copy and assignments work in D really needs to 
be 100% documented in the language spec to ensure that it is 
officially a part of the language and not a clever compiler 
optimization that may or may not be implemented.

To make things much clearer, the documentation should perhaps 
contain a flow chart showing the order of execution, with plenty 
of examples that show edge cases and best practices.

--rt