• Ender KaShae <astrothayne gmail.com> Aug 02 2007

Ender KaShae <astrothayne gmail.com> writes:

Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:


 Can you come up with something more solid than "this is how C++ does it?" 
 Can you explain what functionality global and static operator overloads 
 provide that member operator overloads cannot? 
 
 


lets say you have an immutable fraction class, with D the way it is you can't
overload any op=, =, ++, or --, and maintain immutability
with nonmember/static operator overloads you can as such:

static Fraction opAddAssign(ref Fraction first, Fraction second){...}

where first is assigned a new instance of Fraction