Feature request: Path append operators for strings

TommiT tommitissari at hotmail.com
Fri Jul 5 07:59:38 PDT 2013


On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 23:28:41 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 21:48:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 7/2/2013 1:47 PM, TommiT wrote:
>>> Division operator for strings doesn't make any sense,
>>
>> That's why overloading / to do something completely unrelated 
>> to division is anti-ethical to writing understandable code.
>
> s/division/"The common agreed upon semantic"/
>
>> The classic example of this is the overloading of << and >> 
>> for stream operations in C++.
>
> Or overloading ~ to mean "concat" ?

It's rather C++'s std::string which overloads the meaning of + to 
mean "concatenation". I wonder if some other programming language 
has assigned some other symbol (than ~) to mean "concatenation". 
I guess math uses || for it.


More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list