On Saturday, 5 September 2015 at 09:44:13 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2015-09-05 08:18, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
There is nothing in the spec about supporting operator
overloading with
free functions, so I don't know where you get the idea that
it's even
intended to be a feature. UFCS applies to functions which use
the member
function call syntax, and operators aren't used that way.
There is no
plan whatsoever to support operator overloading via free
functions.
Since "a == b" would be lowered to "a.opEquals(b)" one could
argue that the compile would also try UFCS since it would do
that if the code had been "a.opEquals(b)" from the beginning.
The voice of reason.
