partial class

[KennyTM~]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:53 AM, KennyTM~ <kennytm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Note that C# have richer RTTI ability than D because C# is only compiled to
>> a higher level byte code.
> 
> The fact that C# is compiled, on first pass, to CIL has literally
> nothing to do with its reflection capabilities.  Information about
> types and symbols is completely separate from code, and even a
> language like D could have RTTI as expressive and flexible as C#.
> Additionally, CIL is - according to its namesake, "Common Intermediate
> Language" - not really meant to be executed directly, and is most of
> the time just-in-time compiled to native machine code before
> execution.
> 
>> (*: Only opStar (opDeref) can be overloaded for an array as far as I've
>> tested.)
> 
> That seems.. odd.  Maybe it's a bug?  I wasn't aware that you should
> be able to overload operators on basic types.

This may be a bug for array types, but should not for custom types. 
Because the a.method(b) syntax is based on the one now existed on 
arrays, it's natural for me to test if operator overloading really works 
on arrays first.

(Although I don't see any value dereferencing an array.)