opStarAssign?

Janice Caron caron800 at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 22 13:33:45 PST 2007


On 11/22/07, Gregor Richards <Richards at codu.org> wrote:
> Janice Caron wrote:
> > but for some reason
> > "opStar" would not be high on my list of choices.
>
> Because the names for operator overloads should be based on what
> operator they're overloading, not the syntax for it.
>
> e.g. it's opMul, not opStar. opDiv, not opSlash.

Yeah. Um. I was employing irony.

Anyway, I'd hope Walter is considering changing the name, given the
unanimous support here for doing that. The other part of my question
though, was, is opWhateverAssign() on the cards any time soon. Any
sign of an overload for *p = ?



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