On Wednesday, 28 September 2016 at 01:18:58 UTC, Minty Fresh
wrote:
Currently, D offers fine grained overloading for most of the
unary and arithmetic binary operators, but at some point a
decision was made to lump together all of the relational
operators (and if necessary, the equality operators) into a
single function `opCmp`.
And while it does add a lot of convenience and consistency to
how operators behave, it does also put a lot of limitations on
what they can do.
[...]
opCmp was a good idea.
Allowing opBinary to bypass opCmp is also a good idea.
Atila
