On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 21:32:26 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 21:25:00 UTC, dan wrote:
I looked in my distribution's object.d (debian stretch, gdc, in
Did you import std.stdio in the file?
If so, it is calling the std.stdio.write on the object (this is
called UFCS, uniform function call syntax, the language allows
you to call any free function in scope with obj.foo by
rewriting it to foo(obj))
it's interesting how the compiler deals with scope.
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// save this in a file named: write.d
import std.stdio;
void main()
{
auto o = new Object;
// One of statements below will prevent this code from
compiling.
// Which one do you think it is?
// btw. If I instead use gdc on debian, then it will
// compile both statements just fine, and will work as
expected too.
o.write;
write(o);
}
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