version: multiple conditions

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On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 03:10:01 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> I have yet to see a single case of "needing" boolean versions that could
> not be refactored into something much more readable and maintainable
> that did not use such.

and i have yet to see such cases for multiplication operator. it's 
cryptic, it's hard to read, it looks like line noise. isn't this clear 
and readable?

  a = 5.mul(12);

and now see the stupid line noise, introduced by "*":

  a = 5*12;

wtf?! what is that star? some trash from modem?! surely, people can write 
a function to do multiplication if they need it:

  T mul(T a, T b) { T res = a; foreach (_; 1..b) res += a; return res; }

simle and elegant. yes, it doesn't work with floats or negative `b`, but 
hey, it's for readability! if you want to process negative `b`, write 
`mulneg`!

so i'm sure that "*" as multiplication should be removed from the 
language.
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