Operator Overloading - elegant and easy to compile

Bill Baxter dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Tue Apr 15 13:30:04 PDT 2008


Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Bill Baxter, el 15 de abril a las 08:50 me escribiste:
>> Also Walter doesn't like treating the operator symbols as pure symbols.  Part of the 
>> reason he gave the D operator overloads names like "opAdd" was to discourage people from 
>> trying to overload "+" to mean anything other than addition.  So your proposal will face 
>> an uphill battle because of that.
> 
> I think Walter forgot that when he added opStar ;)

Yeh, I think there was pretty much a consensus on the NG that it should 
be called opDeref.

--bb



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