Short list with things to finish for D2

[Leandro Lucarella]

Bill Baxter, el 19 de noviembre a las 14:16 me escribiste:
> > What I found hackish about it is that the code is a string manipulation
> > mess. You can already do a string manipulation mess to programatically
> > implement all the operator overloading.
> 
> This is true, but if you leave it entirely up to the programmer and
> string mixins, the mess is much more messy.
> You're going to end up with code like this:
> 
> mixin(genBinaryOp("+", q{MyType}, q{MyType rhs}, q{
>     return this.impl + rhs.impl;
> }));
> 
> 
> instead of this:
> MyType opBinary(string op : "+")(MyType rhs)  {
>     return this.impl + rhs.impl;
> }
> 
> I would have a hard time defending the former as the recommended D style.
> But the latter is not so bad.  It looks like a regular template
> declaration, and code is code, not a string.

But in this case you gained nothing comparing to opAdd(), where opBinary()
is useful is where you use string mixins to avoid implementing the
operators one by one.

I know the opBinary() approach is less ugly than writing the code youself,
but a library solution could be provided in the meantime (in the
unexistent std.mixin module; which BTW, can't be named that way because
"mixin" is a keyword ;).

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