On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 17:38:28 UTC, Brad Anderson
wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 11:59:19 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 11:51:22 UTC, simendsjo wrote:
And before UFCS..?
AFAIR it mentions only partial UFCS, for built-in stuff
It calls them "pseudo members"* and only spends a couple
paragraphs on them. It talks about them in the context of
needing to add members to built-in types (an array example is
given) but doesn't say they only work for built-in types. It's
surprisingly little coverage for a feature that has become
highly used since it was finally fully implemented not long ago.
* I actually like the name "pseudo members" much better than
UFCS. (Uniform/Unified/Universal) Function Call Syntax doesn't
really tell you anything about what is going on and the fact
that it's almost always referred to by initialism just
obfuscates what it is further and lead to the state we are in
where people keep using different words for the 'U'.
At the time the book was made, it did only work on arrays which
probably explains the minimal coverage and array example.
