Uniform call syntax for operator overloads

[Daniel Keep]

Tomek Sowiński wrote:
> bearophile wrote:
> 
>> Tomek S.:
>>
>>> This doesn't work:
>>> int opIndex(int[][] m, uint i, uint j) { return m[i][j]; }
>> That's cute, but in D overloaded operator can be defined inside
>> structs/classes/unions only (this is different from C++).
> 
> Yeah, I know, but why? What bad would happen if operators could be written 
> down with functions-as-members syntax?
> 
> 
> Tomek

Universal Call Syntax is actually just a really old bug in method lookup
for arrays that was never fixed on account of being useful.

That it doesn't work for operators is hardly surprising.