On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 08:49:27 UTC, bearophile wrote:
The added syntax is just a pair of ( ).
And you can find plenty of comments in property threads about how much this single pair of () matters. In fact it is worse, because it redefines meaning of similar syntax pattern ("a.b") within one expression.
And the convenience is to not break your programming flux, requiring to get out of the flow programming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming), and introducing auxiliary variables. So maybe the added syntax is worth the convenience.
You can just use local selective imports and alias problematic symbol to different name : http://dlang.org/module.html
