On Monday, 4 February 2013 at 03:11:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
There is no way such strange behavior could be explained in a
way that
is coherent with the rest of the language.
I disagree.
Then I'm eager to hear your explanation. Parentheses in an
expression usually change precedence. Here they do something
entirely different.
Introducing a rule by which parenthesizing an expression in a
way that
does not change precedence suddenly causes a difference in
behavior
certainly wouldn't be among the first ideas coming to my mind
this way.
I really think you are wrong about this. Parenthesizing has
nothing to do with this. &a.b is punctuation that creates an
indivizible unit.
a.b already is an indivisible unit, the result of the function
call.
David
