On 2012-12-14, 00:19, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I'd like to overload the '*' operator to work with string arguments. Is it possible? I tried the following, but apparently operator overloading doesn't work at the package level?string opBinary(string op)(string repeatMe, int thisManyTimes) if (op=="*") { auto app = appender!string(); while (thisManyTimes > 0) { app.put(repeatMe); thisManyTimes--; } return app.data; } void main() { writeln("spam" * 3); // compile error } Or is this just a very bad idea? ;-)
Like bearophile said, overloaded operators need to be defined inside one of the types on which they should operate. Since built-in types cannot be modified, one cannot overload operators on them. -- Simen
