Overloading relational operators separately; thoughts?

Minty Fresh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Oct 1 08:21:42 PDT 2016


On Friday, 30 September 2016 at 22:38:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/30/2016 1:14 PM, Minty Fresh wrote:
>> Metathesiophobia
>
> Repeatedly suggesting people who don't agree with you have 
> mental disorders does not advance your case and is not 
> appreciated here.

Metathesiophobia is not a mental disorder, it's a phobia. There's 
quite a bit of distinction there.
Specifically it's an ungrounded fear or dislike of change. It's 
altogether not uncommon, actually.

> A more productive way forward is for you (and those who agree 
> with you) to prepare a formal DIP and submit it. It's the way 
> significant language change proposals are done.

That was sort of the initial intent of this thread. To test the 
waters and see if the idea would have support.
But it seems the community is extremely torn on the matter.


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