yank '>>>'?

Don nospam at nospam.com
Sun Dec 6 11:10:00 PST 2009


dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s article
>> D has operator >>> which means "unsigned shift to the right", inherited
>> from Java. But it doesn't need it because D has unsigned types, which
>> can be used to effect unsigned shift. (Java, lacking unsigned types, had
>> no other way around but to define a new operator.)
>> Should we yank operator>>>?
>> Andrei
> 
> I've never used >>> before, so I'm not 100% sure I understand what it's supposed
> to do.  However, I wrote a test program to see if it does what I think, and if my
> understanding is correct, it's not even properly implemented.  The fact that
> noone's noticed until now is a pretty clear indication that noone uses >>> .

Not so. That must be a regression caused by bugzilla 3115. Ouch.



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