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Learning D

You're reading from   Learning D Leverage the modern convenience and modelling power of the D programming language to develop software with native efficiency

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783552481
Length 464 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Parker Michael Parker
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Preface 1. How to Get a D in Programming 2. Building a Foundation with D Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 3. Programming Objects the D Way 4. Running Code at Compile Time 5. Generic Programming Made Easy 6. Understanding Ranges 7. Composing Functional Pipelines with Algorithms and Ranges 8. Exploring the Wide World of D 9. Connecting D with C 10. Taking D Online 11. Taking D to the Next Level Index

Operator overloading


The time has come to return to user-defined types and see how to implement operator overloads. It's important to note before we get started that D does not support operator overloads as free functions; they must be part of a class or struct declaration. We'll be turning away from templates for part of this discussion; some operator overloads are required to be templates, but others can either be templates or normal member functions. We'll look at the latter group first. For the official documentation on operator overloading, pay a visit to http://dlang.org/operatoroverloading.html.

Non-templated operator overloads

There are a handful of operator overloads that are not required to be templates. These cover the comparison operators, the function call operator, and the assignment operator, as well as the index, index-assign, and dollar operators. We'll visit them each in that order.

Comparison overloads – opEquals and opCmp

The equality operators == and != are overloaded with...

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