Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
D has operator >>> which means "unsigned shift to the right", inherited
from Java. But it doesn't need it because D has unsigned types, which
can be used to effect unsigned shift. (Java, lacking unsigned types, had
no other way around but to define a new operator.)
It's there because in C/C++ one often winds up writing:
(unsigned)x >> i;
to ensure that one gets an unsigned right shift. The problem is that the
cast can have many other side effects if x is not of type int. For
example, if x is a struct with an overloaded cast operator. Or if x is a
long and you just lost half your value.
Should we yank operator>>>?
No.
