user defined implicit casts

[Ender KaShae]

Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:

> "Tristam MacDonald" <swiftcoder at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:f8dndh$1c8l$1 at digitalmars.com...
> > While I would like to see this, I wopuld like to see a logical extension 
> > of the last part even more: non-member operator overloads. This is an 
> > incredibly neat feature from C++ that was lost somewhere along the way, 
> > but I don't know if it was intentional or not...
> 
> It was intentional.  The problem with global or static (as in C#) operator 
> overloads is that they cannot be virtual, and so you end up writing the 
> non-virtual operator overloads which simply call a virtual implementation 
> method on the object(s), which is pointless -- just make the overload 
> virtual in the first place, and it works fine.
> 

c++ has member, global, and static operator overloads it is up to the programmer to choose how to implement it, I think it would be nice if D had a similar mechanizm.