On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 07:55:23 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 00:07:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I find this a very fluid style of programming that I'd hate to
lose.
And that would have been a very important argument if D was
targeted as scripting language. But (I hope so!) it is not,
thus, additional well-defined reasoning about the code is more
important then the "fluid style". IMHO, of course.
I agree. The clarity of logic in the language should be a
priority here.
UFCS is a fine balance, on one hand you can significantly gain
readability, on the other hand you can't tell by eye if something
is a member function unless you look it up.
Optional parenthesis takes it another step further, meaning that
suddenly you can't tell the difference between a member function,
a field or an normal function. To me this seems a step too far.
Properties themselves do introduce this ambiguity (when reading
code), but they do so in a controlled and contained manner, as
opposed to the free-for-all that optional parenthesis enable.
