On Saturday, 29 March 2025 at 18:48:04 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > But overloading operators with freestanding functions? It > becomes a nightmare with non-trivial programs. Even good old Fortran has free operators: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Fortran/language_extensions#Operator_Overloading ... but it's a nightmare for other reasons. ;-)