Define a new custom operator in D Language.

[BoQsc]

On Monday, 2 October 2023 at 18:39:41 UTC, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Monday, 2 October 2023 at 18:34:13 UTC, BoQsc wrote:
>> Here is my issue: I've found a formula on Wikipedia.
>>
>> It's called **Hashing by division**.
>>
>> ![](https://i.imgur.com/UJPAWIW.png)
>> As you can see it uses **mod** keyword to achieve the modulus 
>> operation.
>>
>> In D language we use modulus operator `%` and it might look 
>> more like this:
>> ```
>> h(x) M % m
>> ```
>>
>> This clearly introduces confusion between the source 
>> (wikipedia) and the implementation (dlang version).
>>
>> I would like to know how we could define/alia ourselves a 
>> `mod` operator in D Language.
>>
>> ```
>> h(x) M mod m
>> ```
>>
>> ---
>> **This might lead to less gaps between math formulas and the 
>> implementation.**
>>
>> Or at the very least would allow to define a formula in the 
>> source code for further implementation and introduce some 
>> consistency.
>
> https://dlang.org/spec/operatoroverloading.html#binary


Overloading seems to only overload behaviour of existing 
operator, like:

```
+	-	*	/	%	^^	&
|	^	<<	>>	>>>	~	in

```

I'm unable to see how the operator overloading would allow to 
define a new custom  operator.