On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 01:49:17 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
UFCS only apply to the method call style, not the the function call style, so it's not a matter of priority here - `foo(myObject)` will not call the `foo.myObject()` method even if there is no `foo` function(in that case it'll just fail).

Having the function call style always defer to a member function is a really bad idea - and not just because of code breakage. It'll make it impossible to call a function on an object that has a method of the same name unless you use an alias or a function variable to copy the function - but then you have to make sure the alias\variable name is also not taken!

This will be a disaster for anyone who wants to build or use a D library that uses templates. Well, how common can that case be?

That's exactly what the proposed @hijackable annotation on a function would do, if I understand it correctly.

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