Generic operators support in C#.

[dmitriyse]

Currently c# does not support generic operators definition like that:

public static MyAddExpression<SomeClass, T> operator<T>+(SomeClass c, T t){return ...}

This support can be usefull to build advanced libs with expressions (validation expressions in my case).

This is only C# limitation, CLR ready for this feature.
We can already define operator in different syntax.

[SpecialName]
public  static string op_Addition(SomeClass c, string s){...}

No changes in CLR needed to define generic operator in this syntax:

[SpecialName]
public static MyAddExpression<SomeClass, T> op_Addition<T>(SomeClass c, T t){return ...}

but later C# does not recognize it.

Please add this proposal to the C# 7.0 wish list.

[tpetrina]

I would love this feature. Non-generic operators are limiting.

[dsaf]

Related to #3391 and #2147.

[msedi]

Yes. In my opinion this is now absolutely necessary. Having only generics that are not fully equivalent to C++ generics (in functional behaviour) are absolutely mandatory. I guess there are many guys out there requesting this feature. Instead a lot of people here are complaining about syntactic sugar.

[orthoxerox]

Might help solve the problem of verbose generic patterns discussed in #10153. If is was generic the pattern could infer its generic type.

[grwGeo]

I have needed this feature trying to model mathematical entities and it is a definite must. It will save tons of repetitive code and make the conceptual model richer. Also type inference would do wonders in this scenario.

[gafter]

Issue moved to dotnet/csharplang #813 via ZenHub