On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 09:44:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/1/2016 3:33 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Or alternative 4, fix D so that proper operator definition can
be
achieved.
The way D's operator overloading is designed is not a mistake.
It's limitations are a feature, not a bug. It was deliberately
set up to:
1. Make doing C++ style iostreams hard.
struct _cout {
auto opBinary(string s : "<<", T)(auto ref T rhs) {
import std.stdio : write;
write(rhs);
return this;
}
}
_cout cout;
void main() {
cout << "Walter " << "hates " << "this." << endl;
}
and yet, I can't overload the address-of operator because Walter
is afraid I might shoot my foot.
