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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Unary operator after binary operator: legal or not? => Compiler Error
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:53:50 -0400
Date: 2007-07-31T11:53:50-04:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccy7gwa7sh.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: x5gt38t82erv.18bpz9z12rz3q.dlg@40tude.net

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:05:05 -0400, Robert A Duff wrote:
>
>> If there's a bug, it's a bug in the language definition.  ;-)
>
> But not in this place. There should be user-defined subtypes, which would
> eliminate any need in tricks like defining nonsensical "+", just in order
> to have a shortest possible name for the conversion, which otherwise should
> be automatic.

Agreed.

But don't you think:

    X * -3

ought to be legal (no user-defined operators in sight)?

- Bob



  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-31 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-30 22:52 Unary operator after binary operator: legal or not? Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-07-30 23:39 ` Markus E.L.
2007-07-31  0:22 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-07-31 21:52   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-07-31  8:01 ` anon
2007-07-31  8:16   ` Unary operator after binary operator: legal or not? => Compiler Error anon
2007-07-31  8:38     ` AW: Unary operator after binary operator: legal or not? => CompilerError Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)
2007-07-31 15:05     ` Unary operator after binary operator: legal or not? => Compiler Error Robert A Duff
2007-07-31 15:39       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-07-31 15:53         ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2007-07-31 17:02           ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-07-31 19:17             ` Adam Beneschan
2007-08-01  7:16               ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-08-01 15:23                 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-07-31 20:59             ` Robert A Duff
2007-08-01  7:24               ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-08-01  8:02                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-08-01  8:17                   ` AW: Unary operator after binary operator: legal or not? => CompilerError Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)
2007-08-01 10:10                     ` Ian Clifton
2007-08-01  9:34                   ` Unary operator after binary operator: legal or not? => Compiler Error Georg Bauhaus
2007-08-01 21:51                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-07-31 17:52           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-08-02 20:44           ` Charles Lindsey
2007-08-03  7:48             ` Stuart
2007-08-03  7:51             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-07-31 23:22     ` anon
2007-08-01  0:13       ` Adam Beneschan
2007-08-01  6:20         ` Unary operator after binary operator: legal or not? => Illegal anon
2007-08-01  5:34       ` AW: Unary operator after binary operator: legal or not? => CompilerError Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)
2007-08-01  6:46         ` To := Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG) anon
2007-08-01  7:11           ` AW: " Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)
2007-08-02  6:52             ` anon
2007-08-02  8:56               ` AW: " Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)
2007-08-02 22:29                 ` Markus E.L. 2
2007-08-02 23:02                   ` tmoran
2007-08-02 23:11                     ` Ed Falis
2007-08-02 23:34                     ` Markus E.L. 2
2007-08-03  4:42                   ` AW: " Grein, Christoph (Fa. ESG)
2007-08-02 22:28               ` Markus E.L. 2
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