No household is perfect

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Dec 4 09:11:04 PST 2013


On 12/4/2013 5:50 AM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
> The point is that D does not have operator overloading for in-built types. The
> unnecessary one is the global operator overload you suggest, as it is more
> intrusive than `opBinaryRight`.

The bad thing about the global operator overloading is that it:

1. follows different scoping and lookup rules

2. was the motivation for ADL (aka "Koenig Lookup")

There was no way I was going to put ADL into D :-)


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