• Nicholas Wilson (6/6) May 29 2016 Is it legal/possible to overload the unary * operator? Also is it
• Mike Parker (5/8) May 29 2016 Yes to unary * (see [1]). No to the rest. Comparisons are always

Nicholas Wilson <iamthewilsonator hotmail.com> writes:

Is it legal/possible to overload the unary * operator? Also is it 
legal/possible to individually overload the comparison operators 
and not return a bool?

(Before you ask no I'm not crazy, I am trying to make a library 
solution to multiple address spaces for supporting OpenCL/CUDA in 
D, and vector comparisons.)

Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 30 May 2016 at 05:54:42 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
 Is it legal/possible to overload the unary * operator? Also is 
 it legal/possible to individually overload the comparison 
 operators and not return a bool?

Yes to unary * (see [1]). No to the rest. Comparisons are always 
lowered to opEquals or opCmp by the compiler as per [2].

[1] https://dlang.org/spec/operatoroverloading.html#unary
[2] https://dlang.org/spec/operatoroverloading.html#eqcmp