On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 15:39:50 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 14:57:01 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote:
My concern is that this shouldn't compile in the first place.
What is xyz?, Is it a free function? Is it a member variable
or function? In my mind it is neither of the two so why does
it compile?
Oh, but that's precisely the point of opDispatch. ;) It offers
a mechanism to respond to any members that are not found. See
the spec for an example:
http://dlang.org/operatoroverloading.html#Dispatch
David
Exactly. opDispatch catches calls to missing methods and acts
based on method name which it gets as a string at compile time.
In this case, the idea is this:
auto v1 = Vec!4(4, 5, 6, 7);
auto v2 = v1.xyz; // => Vec!3(4, 5, 6);
auto v3 = v1.wx; // => Vec!2(7, 4);
auto v4 = v1.wxx1; // => Vec!4(7, 4, 4, 1);
