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I wouldn’t mind if such a statement in isolation would be a compiler error and if languages in general were much stricter. So far all languages I have seen t

I wouldn’t mind if such a statement in isolation would be a compiler error and if languages in general were much stricter. So far all languages I have seen that are very forgiving in terms of syntax (PHP comes to mind) seem to breed sloppy programmers and software written in these often have stupid little bugs caused by typos.

WalterBright 6y ago
This particular issue has not caused any "silly typo disease" problems that I'm aware of in D. In fact, pretty much nobody notices it, it just works the way people expect it to. (There are some other things in D that are designed to discourage trying to overload arithmetic operators for non-arithmetic purposes. For example, < <= > >= cannot be overloaded individually, only as a group.)