Feature request: Path append operators for strings
TommiT
tommitissari at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 2 15:28:23 PDT 2013
On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 21:48:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/2/2013 1:47 PM, TommiT wrote:
>> Division operator for strings doesn't make any sense,
>
> That's why overloading / to do something completely unrelated
> to division is anti-ethical to writing understandable code. The
> classic example of this is the overloading of << and >> for
> stream operations in C++.
I've never thought of it like that. At some point I remember
writing a vector type which overloaded its binary * operator to
mean dot product (or cross product, I can't remember). So, you
can overload an operator, but you can't overload the meaning of
an operator.
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