On Friday, July 05, 2013 16:59:38 TommiT wrote: > On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 23:28:41 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote: > > On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 21:48:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > >> On 7/2/2013 1:47 PM, TommiT wrote: > >>> Division operator for strings doesn't make any sense, > >> > >> That's why overloading / to do something completely unrelated > >> to division is anti-ethical to writing understandable code. > > > > s/division/"The common agreed upon semantic"/ > > > >> The classic example of this is the overloading of << and >> > >> for stream operations in C++. > > > > Or overloading ~ to mean "concat" ? > > It's rather C++'s std::string which overloads the meaning of + to > mean "concatenation". I wonder if some other programming language > has assigned some other symbol (than ~) to mean "concatenation". > I guess math uses || for it.
Most languages I've used use + for concatenating strings, so it was definitely surprising to me that D didn't. I have no problem with the fact that it has a specific operator for concatenation (and there are some good reasons for it), but + seems to be pretty standard across languages from what I've seen. I've certainly never seen another language use ~ for that purpose, but at the moment, I can't remember whether I've ever seen another programming language use ~ for _any_ purpose. - Jonathan M Davis
