On Tuesday, 1 May 2012 at 21:03:35 UTC, foobar wrote:
vote++
I like your POV that operators are useful shortcuts (syntax
sugar) meant for the end user whereas library authors should use
the full function names for generic code. IIRC C++'s STL does
the
same - for instance the map::operator[] is a simple wrapper
around map's functions.
Is this included in D's style guide?
vote-------------
If something is a bad idea for a library, I don't see why it
could be a good idea for the user code. After all, the standard
library IS user code.
The fact that it's in a library or not doesn't change anything to
the fact that your syntactic sugar is hiding a potential problem.
