V: Allow overloading of ^ and % operators

[Undumendil]

[elimisteve]

@Undumendil Examples/use cases would help make this more compelling :-D

[Undumendil]

Here they are:

fn (a bigi) ^ (b bigi) { ... } // power
fn (a bigi) % (b bigi) { ... } // modulo
fn (a bin_data) ^ (b bin_data) { ... } // xor 
fn (a some_data) % (b some_data) { ... } // take a, reset everything defined in b (not literally), return

[ntrel]

Operator overloading should not be used to change the meaning of the operators. I agree that all numeric operators should be overloadable for all kinds of structs representing numerical data.

[serkonda7]

Operator overloading is usually used to work with custom types but I can't see use cases where you would need overloaded ^ and %.

[ntrel]

@Serkonda For a BigInteger type, that doesn't have a fixed maximum value. The use case is the same as for any fixed size integer.

[Delta456]

There's % overloading now

[VinWare]

The ^ operator is already used for XOR, so I don't think it would be overloaded for power. Should this issue be closed now?