grauzone wrote:
bearophile wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu:
* Encode operators by compile-time strings. For example, instead of
the plethora of opAdd, opMul, ..., we'd have this:
T opBinary(string op)(T rhs) { ... }
The string is "+", "*", etc.
I thought the problem with this was that the lexer/parser would have to
know about semantics, which is against the goals of the language. Would
the operator actually be inside quotes?
It's simpler than that.
a + b
will be rewritten into
a.opBinary!("+")(b)
The rewrite is done long after lexing, so no low-level problems there.
Anyway, do we _really_ want to make it possible, that valid D code will
look like ASCII art?
We want to improve the state of the art. If the attempt risks to end up
doing the opposite, I'm all ears.
Andrei
