operators in language reference

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Apr 1 09:11:25 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 15:50:20 UTC, Dominikus Dittes 
Scherkl wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 April 2015 at 15:42:31 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> does this including IEEE floating point number description 
>> down to bits,
>> for example? as it's essentialy the same thing: requirement to 
>> read
>> external sources.
>>
>> i.e. it's good and all that, but where we should draw the line?
>
> At least a reference to another (concurrent!) language is not 
> so good.
> D aims to replace C/C++, so it should not refer to its 
> definitions.
>
> But ok, I've read the expressions chapter again, and most 
> operators are described good enought. For some it is clear from 
> the naming of the operands (AddExpression implies an arithmetic 
> operation of addition/subtraction) but it is not realy 
> explicitly expressed.

A table in the wiki with a one-line description and example each 
would be a nice idea, for a start.


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