and/or/not/xor operators

[John Colvin]

On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 16:18:44 UTC, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Hello. I have always loved the readability of C++'s 
> and/or/not/xor
> word-like logical operators but It doesn't seem to be available 
> in D.
> Isn't this possible in D? I tried doing:
>
> alias && and ;
> import std.stdio ;
> void main () {
> 	writeln ( true and true ) ;
> }
>
> but I get errors:
>
> $ dmd foo.d
> foo.d(1): Error: basic type expected, not &&
> foo.d(1): Error: no identifier for declarator int
> foo.d(1): Error: semicolon expected to close alias declaration
> foo.d(1): Error: Declaration expected, not '&&'
> foo.d(7): Error: found 'and' when expecting ',
>
> Thanks.

For better or worse, we don't have those keywords in D and are 
unlikely to get them.

Also, alias is not the same as the C preprocessor, you can't 
redefine any arbitrary string you want. 
http://dlang.org/declaration.html#alias