Martin Nowak is officially MIA

Timon Gehr timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Fri Mar 28 23:03:06 UTC 2025


On 3/27/25 21:25, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/18/2025 11:05 PM, Manu wrote:
>> I can't imagine any good reason his experiment should have failed.
> 
> My experience with C++ and Koenig lookup heavily influenced this.
> 
> It looks nice in simple examples, but nobody stops with simple examples. 
> Impenetrable code is the result.
> 
> Operator overloading should be part of the type, not standalone coming 
> from somewhere else.
> 

D has no Koenig lookup. D will never have Koenig lookup. Koenig lookup 
is utterly irrelevant in this discussion.

There really ought not be any important difference between:

a + b

and

a.opBinary!"+"(b)

One is just supposed to be syntactic sugar for the other. The 
documentation states as much.


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