On Sunday, 22 June 2025 at 15:04:27 UTC, matheus wrote:
Hi, could someone please tell me why operador overloading
(https://dlang.org/spec/operatoroverloading.html) is relegated
only to classes and structs?
"1 Operator overloading is accomplished by rewriting operators
whose operands are class or struct objects into calls to
specially named members. No additional syntax is used."
I'd like to overload "~" to concatenate a string with a integer
and do something else, like:
auto s = "1" ~ 2;
But what I've tried so far didn't work.
If that constraint (Classes and Structs) is true, why?
Thanks,
Matheus.
The explanations you'll get never satisfied me. I feel like
safety is thrown around when the spec is often written to match
the previous behavior
If you need to get something working inside some already written
code I suggest alias this for bandaids; opdispath for major
redesigns.
