Martin Nowak is officially MIA

[monkyyy]

On Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 06:05:24 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 at 11:36, Meta via Digitalmars-d < 
> digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 18 March 2025 at 20:00:01 UTC, Maximilian Naderer 
>> wrote:
>> > Hello guys,
>> >
>> > Not sure if you are aware a pretty big Streamer made a video 
>> > about D!
>> >
>> > Not that it’s important for me but he is really impressed 
>> > with the language and was blown away a couple of times.
>> >
>> > https://youtu.be/Gj5310KnUTQ?si=rSP50Uf9oeb4vLm1
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Max
>>
>> "This language is garbage collected, and they're _fucking 
>> ashamed_ of that!"
>>
>> This guy is surprisingly perceptive and 100% accurate with his 
>> cutting observations hahaha.
>>
>
> Why didn't his operator overloading experiment work?
>
> struct S {
>     int x;
> }
>
> // non-member opBinary
> S opBinary(string s : "+")(S lh, S rh) {
>     return S(lh.x + rh.x);
> }
>
> void main()
> {
>     S a, b;
>     S s1 = a.opBinary!"+"(b); // <- UFCS works, as expected
>     S s2 = a + b; // ERROR: doesn't work! why not? the rewrite 
> should work
> via UFCS as above...
> }
>
> I can't imagine any good reason his experiment should have 
> failed. I would want this too when extern to a C lib; it hasn't 
> come up for me before, but if it did, I would log a bug 
> instantly.

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