Bill Baxter wrote:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<[email protected]> wrote:
I am thinking that representing operators by their exact token
representation is a principled approach because it allows for unambiguous
mapping,
There used to be an argument floating around that using 'opAdd" was
better than "op+" because the former encourages people to only
overload the method to do things that resemble addition. Whereas op+
says I'm just a symbol, do whatever you want with me.
I never really bought into it... but it was what I was told years ago
when I complained that opSub opMul etc were harder to remember than
need be. :-)
I guess D will have to change it's story now.
--bb
FWIW, I'm not buying into that either. May be one of those cases in
which community's experience and insight has slowly obviated the party line.
Andrei
