template syntax

[bauss]

On Thursday, 31 January 2019 at 13:01:09 UTC, Seb wrote:
> On Thursday, 31 January 2019 at 01:28:29 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 05:11:07PM -0800, Walter Bright via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> On 1/30/2019 4:08 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> > Don't forget "typename" and "::template", beautifully 
>>> > combined here:
>>> > 
>>> > typedef typename Allocator::template rebind<Mapped>::other 
>>> > mapped_type_allocator;
>>> 
>>> It is indeed beautiful. Want to write a DIP to switch to < > ?
>>
>> I second!
>>
>> And while we're at it, how about reinstating the comma 
>> operator and introducing opComma, and additionally opLess, 
>> opLessEqual, opGreater, opGreaterEqual, opNotEqual, and opDot?
>>  It will be greatly helpful with a library implementation of <
>> > syntax, which will be an important step to gauge how useful
>> it will be in practice, and could in the meantime serve as a 
>> good substitute in lieu of a complicated in-compiler 
>> implementation.
>>
>>
>> T
>
> FWIW opDot still exists in DMD as of 2.084.0 (and nightly):
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/2457038c1ac37fbe1098b4b3d98007761149dfaf/test/runnable/xtest46.d#L130
>
> It's just deprecated.
> We don't have opGreater/opEqual, but there's still opAnd:
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/06d3770d3baf51ce0b4b9998bf6a4e0369ee8f02/test/runnable/opover.d
>
> In fact all these old D1 operator overloads (opPos,opNeg,..., 
> opShl, opShr,..., opMul_r) are still supported in DMD and don't 
> even trigger a deprecation message:
>
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/06d3770d3baf51ce0b4b9998bf6a4e0369ee8f02/src/dmd/id.d#L206

Someone needs to do some cleanup.