I did a code that uses custom literals to allow indexing arrays with ordinals (1st, 2nd, 3rd), all at compile time. Additionally _st works only with 1, _nd only with 2, _rd only with 3. Zero and negative numbers are also not supported and fail compilation.

https://github.com/serpent7776/bits/blob/master/th.cpp/th.cpp

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What’s the purpose of this? If you want to access an index in an array, isn’t using integers easier?

And if you want string literals, you can make a map and access the key that way as well

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Does it matter? OP had an itch. He scratched it, and shared it with the world.

The reason could be “I wonder if I can?”. That’s good enough.

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Yeah, that was basically it.

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There’s no purpose really. It was more of “wonder if I can” and also nice way to learn custom literals.

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