On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 21:23:54 bearophile wrote: > Jonathan M Davis: > > > put is a function on output ranges, and Appender is an output range. > > > > Also, given that it doesn't define ~ (and it wouldn't really make sense > > for it to), it would be very weird IMHO to define ~=. > > I don't understand why that's weird. > In Java you can't overload an append operator, so using a method is right. > But for me it's weird that Appender doesn't use the D operator to _append_. > I sometimes use "add" instead of "put" by mistake, forgetting the right > method name, because I find it quite unnatural. If Appender needs a put, > then I suggest to give it both "put" method and "~=" operator.
Would you define += without defining +? Or *= without defining *? It strikes me as a misuse of operator overloading if you have an opOpAssign without its corresponding opBinary. - Jonathan M Davis
