On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 07:59:49 UTC, w0rp wrote:
Personally, I find this proposal for C++ to be laughable. It's
like hitch hiking from New York to California, and only getting
as far as Texas and calling it good.
The great thing about our UFCS is the left-to-right chaining of
algorithms.
x.map!(...).filter!(...).reduce!(...)
It beats the Hell out of...
reduce!(...)(filter!(...)(map!(...)(x)))
This proposal will encourage non member functions, which is
good, but will never reach the "aha" moment D had which gave us
UFCS chaining.
Ugh, that syntax is abusing the implied semantics of
dot-notation; member-access. Better to have a pipeline operator.
Such syntax abuse is common in other languages too, so I don't
get the "aha". It is more a case of "ugh, repeated mistake"...
Explicit extension methods is a much better alternative.
