Is it possible to specify the address returned by the address of operator?

[DreadKyller]

On Wednesday, 27 September 2017 at 21:18:50 UTC, nkm1 wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 September 2017 at 20:24:24 UTC, DreadKyller 
> wrote:
>> The attitude of "some people use this feature incorrectly, so 
>> let's ban it's use entirely" is honestly ridiculous to me, but 
>> oh well, that's apparently the modern philosophy.
>
> Not even modern, see Java :) ("I left out operator overloading 
> as a fairly personal choice because I had seen too many people 
> abuse it in C++." - James Gosling)

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that not allowing operator 
overloading is new, and Java doesn't allow any, like at all, 
compared to D just not allowing a handful. And I wasn't referring 
to operator overloading specifically, I was talking in general 
about how it's become more common with modern languages to try 
being overly safe, in attempt to prevent users from making 
mistakes. It's not that it's particularly problematic, but it 
does tend to make some more recent languages far more verbose and 
tedious to type. This philosophy has existed since very early on, 
it's just become more common in the last decade or so. I just 
disagree with the concept, I just happen to feel that had the 
effort that was put into the philosophy and design of making 
things safer had been put into educating and developing better 
tools and resources then the need for such restrictions would be 
less essential. In general I feel D has a good balance of this, 
there are restrictions that I dislike, but can work around them 
because or the benefits of the language, despite what I see as 
several flaws in the design personally, it's still currently my 
favorite language.

Also off-topic slightly, but am I the only one with massive 
latency on this site? It took like almost 2 minutes from me 
hitting reply before this page showed up, and my last few posts 
took like a minute to post, and all other sites I've been to 
don't have that problem, is that a problem with the site or am I 
the only one with this issue?