Operator Overloading + / ~

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Martin Tschierschke wrote:

> Just a thought it might be useful for cut-n-paste when porting code:
>
> Would it be possible to define an operator overloading for '+'-Operator 
> for strings to work as append? (like ~).
> I understand, that '~' is in general a better choice than '+', so this is 
> of more theoretical interest.
> It is clear to me, that when I define my own string type this is possible.
>
> Regards mt.

nope. it is not possible to overload operators for built-in types (and 
string is just an aliased array).