Adding Unicode operators to D

[Benji Smith]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote
>> Please vote up before the haters take it down, and discuss:
>>
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/78rjk/allowing_unicode_operators_in_d_similarly_to/

It'd be fun to find ways to use all those nutty symbols. Maybe the ♥ 
operator could be used to indicate "friend" classes!!!

    class TreeNode
       ♥ Tree,
       ♥ TreeVisitor,
    {
       ...
    }

Seriously, though... I wouldn't mind seeing some unicode operators.

But if we go that route, I think there ought to be some official support 
(endorsement, contribution, collaboration, etc) toward an editor or IDE 
for writing D code.

It's one thing to say "you could hypothetically configure your editor to 
automatically transform trigraphs into unicode symbols". But it's 
another thing entirely if there's support from the horse's mouth for the 
development of those tools.

--benji