http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2011

           Summary: opStar should be called opDeref
           Product: D
           Version: 2.012
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: DMD
        AssignedTo: bugzilla@digitalmars.com
        ReportedBy: wbaxter@gmail.com


Over a year ago when I suggested that operators in D should be written more like op(+) because it's too hard to remember all those operator names (opCom anyone?) Walter told me that opAdd is opAdd because if you're going to overload "+" it better be for the purpose of implementing addition.  Hence the name is opAdd, not op(+) or opPlus.

So now why do we have opStar?  Does the fact that it's named after the operator rather than the operation mean that it's ok to abuse it for whatever purpose you like, unlike "+","/", etc.?

Additionally the naming is ambiguious since "*" is also used for multiplication.

Since unary "*" dereferences a variable, the name of the method should be opDeref. (We don't say opDivide or opMultipy, so the use of abbreviation is consistent).

This has been debated on the NG before and I don't recall any opposition to the
suggestion that opStar is the wrong name.
I can't find the relevant newsgroup threads now, but if someone can, please add
them.


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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2011


Don <clugdbug@yahoo.com.au> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |clugdbug@yahoo.com.au
         Resolution|                            |INVALID


--- Comment #1 from Don <clugdbug@yahoo.com.au> 2010-02-12 00:18:45 PST ---
This is obsolete now with the new operator overloading scheme. It's now opUnary!("*"), and will never be opDeref.

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