opStar

[Janice Caron]

On 11/10/07, Janice Caron <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 11/10/07, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:
> > And then opStarAddAssign, opStarDivAssign, opStarShlAssign,
> > opStarCatAssign...   no, that doesn't sound right.
>
> Well you also can't do
>     a[0] += n;
>     a[0] /= n;
>     a[0] <<= n;
>     a[0] ~= n;
>
> for classes overloading opIndex() and opIndexAssign().

You're right. It's a different beast. You'd /want/ to be able to do
    *p++ = *q++;

Though of course you can already do:
    a[i++] = b[j++];

I always thought smart arrays were "the D way", but now I'm just confused.