opStar

[David B. Held]

Christopher Wright wrote:
> Janice Caron wrote:
>> On 11/11/07, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:
>>> On 2007-11-11 00:42:07 -0500, Walter Bright 
>>> <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> said:
>>>
>>>>> What's opStar for, if not to implement iterators?
>>>> For iterators.
>>> I've never
>>> like much C++ pointer-like iterators, and I don't think working with
>>> iterators should feel like we're manipulating pointers.
>>
>> Are you aware of any primitive type other than a pointer which takes a
>> unary asterisk operator, for any purpose whatsoever?
> 
> Kleene star? If you want to call a regex a primitive type :P

Technically the Kleene star is a postfix operator, whereas C's pointer 
dereference operator is prefix.

Dave