On 2012-04-30 05:45, H. S. Teoh wrote:
While personally, I like the idea of being able to create new infix
operators, it will cause too big a change to D syntax, and probably
cause lots of breakages with existing code, as well as make the
lexer/parser much harder to implement (given the existing D features).
You also then have to deal with operator precedence between arbitrary
user-defined operators, which is non-trivial in general (though it's
workable if you impose some constrains -- but it's probably way beyond
the scope of D2 or even D3).
Yes, a language would basically need to be designed with this in mind
from the start. That's what I'm thing sometimes, D could have gone down
some other road in some cases but it's way too late to change it now.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
