operators in language reference

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 10:53:57 UTC, Dominikus Dittes 
Scherkl wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 10:39:01 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 10:06:20 UTC, Dominikus Dittes 
>> Scherkl wrote:
>>> There is a gapping hole in the language reference: The 
>>> operators are nowhere described.
>>> Ok, most of them are the same as in C and C++, but there are 
>>> subtle differences (e.g. different precedence) and some are 
>>> new (the floating point comparisons have their own chapter 
>>> and they are about to beeing deprecated, but what about >>>, 
>>> ^^, ^^=, =>, ., is, in ?).
>>> And even if they where all the same as in C or C++, not 
>>> everybody comes from those languages and D should be 
>>> understandable without such kind of background knowledge, I 
>>> think.
>>
>> http://dlang.org/expression.html
> This describes what operators (tokens) exist and what operands 
> they can take
> (form a grammar point of view), but not what they do. You may 
> say that's obvious, but I know languages where even "+" doesn't 
> do what one might expect.

With exception of the ones that are the same in C, I can't spot 
any that are missing an explanation.

I agree that it would be good to have a more beginner friendly 
description of them all, but to a C(++) programmer I would say 
that document contains the info they need.