-> and :: operators

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On Friday, 9 October 2015 at 03:41:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> These, of course, are C++ operators that are replace with the . 
> operator in D. But when I translate C++ code to D, sometimes 
> these operators get left behind, and sometimes I simply 
> reflexively type them into D code.
>
> The error message coming out of dmd could be better. I suggest 
> recognizing -> and :: in the lexer, and saying something like:
>
>    "The '->' operator is not in D, did you mean '.'?"
>
> Anyone want to do a PR for this? (Should be pretty 
> straightforward.)

Too late to change but wouldn't it be better to have one operator 
for members and another for UFCS? '->' would be good for UFCS.