On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 03:10:01 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > I have yet to see a single case of "needing" boolean versions that could > not be refactored into something much more readable and maintainable > that did not use such.
and i have yet to see such cases for multiplication operator. it's
cryptic, it's hard to read, it looks like line noise. isn't this clear
and readable?
a = 5.mul(12);
and now see the stupid line noise, introduced by "*":
a = 5*12;
wtf?! what is that star? some trash from modem?! surely, people can write
a function to do multiplication if they need it:
T mul(T a, T b) { T res = a; foreach (_; 1..b) res += a; return res; }
simle and elegant. yes, it doesn't work with floats or negative `b`, but
hey, it's for readability! if you want to process negative `b`, write
`mulneg`!
so i'm sure that "*" as multiplication should be removed from the
language.
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