A new class -->String

[Dan]

Jari-Matti Mäkelä Wrote:

> Dan wrote:
> > I totally disagree with Class'ing a simple data type just to introduce
> > functions to handle it.
> 
> I'm sure we all agree on that. Extending previously closed classes is a
> valuable feature in modern object oriented programming.
...
> a few special cases. You cannot do something like
> 
> auto myS = "moo";
> 
> char[] opMul(char[] str, int count) {
>         char[] tmp;
>         for(int i=0; i<count; i++) tmp ~= str;
>         return tmp;
> }
> 
> auto s2 = myS * 3;  // = "moomoomoo"

If what you want is operator overrides, I'd recommend a struct.  Semantically, it's equivalent to using the simple data type, while allowing you to sugar coat it in the same way as a class.