Overloading the assignment operator, right now!

[Georg Wrede]

Hasan Aljudy wrote:
> Georg Wrede wrote:
> 
>> Overloading of the assignment operator is not allowed in D.
>>
>> But no problem, we can do it right now, in spite of it.
>>
>> Just overload the opCatAssign operator instead, and use ~= where = 
>> would be used.
>>
>> This way we might gather enough use cases to really know whether it is 
>> good or bad in practice.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Why do you have to think in C++ when coding in D?

I don't. Do you?

Seriously, if you look back in the archives, I've been pretty voluminous 
in my support of several ideas and opinions. Getting assignment operator 
overload hasn't been one of them.

Then again, some other people have really wanted it, and I stumbled on a 
method to try it out with, which I wrote here. Now they can try it out, 
without Walter having to make changes to the language.