On Tuesday, 3 December 2013 at 20:09:52 UTC, Ary Borenszweig
wrote:
On 12/3/13 4:53 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 12/3/13 4:41 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 13:29 +0100, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
[…]
Does scala have arbitrary operators like Haskell? Looks
useless
in D. If you have an operator '+' that should not be
pronounced
'plus' you are doing it wrong.
Yes.
a + b
could be set union, logic and, string concatenation. The + is
just a
message to the LHS object
or RHS :o).
How come?
"opBinaryRight":
http://dlang.org/operatoroverloading.html
It's a "neat" feature that allows operators being member
functions, yet still resolve to the right hand side if needed.
For example:
auto result = 1 + complex(1, 1);
Will compile, and be re-written as:
auto result = complex(1, 1).opBinaryRight!"+"(1);
In contrast, C++ has to resort to non-member friend operators to
make this work.
