Operator Overloading + / ~

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 19 June 2017 at 12:22:43 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> 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).
Thank you for lightning fast response :-)