On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 21:02:09 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
In the new D release there have been some changes regarding
built-in types.
http://dlang.org/changelog.html?2.066#array_and_aa_changes
I would like to learn why this has been done like this and why
it is desired to be free functions rather than properties?
Probably because they never should have been properties in the
first place. Properties are supposed to emulate variables,
whereas something like dup is clearly an action. So, it's clearly
not supposed to be a property. However, because D doesn't require
parens on a function with no arguments, you can still call it
without parens. Some of the changes probably also help with
cleaning up the AA internals, which is sorely needed.
- Jonathan M Davis
