On Saturday, 13 October 2012 at 22:58:56 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
Afaik free-function operator overloads (but not in the context of UFCS) were considered and turned down because D did not want to get amidst discussions about adding Koenig lookup. UFCS does not do Koenig lookup.
I don't get it, aren't the current symbol lookup rules enough to make free function operator overloads useful? To me it looks like they are.
Sorry for digging up this thread, just getting irritated by a restriction that seems pointless and arbitrary.
Overloaded operators would suffer from the same potential abuses other methods are subjected to if UFCS was enabled, nothing more as far as I can see.
