On Thursday, 5 October 2017 at 10:23:17 UTC, Dukc wrote:
Does that work? If so, good. But still not optimal, because you
should be able to extend the functionality of code without
changing it.
It works, yes. The point is, additional methods in the struct
body, and free standing functions outside of the body, but in the
same module, is basically the same thing in D (I believe Andrei
already mentioned that).
Looks like what most people want are extension methods, not
ADL?
We already have extension methods, but rather we want extension
methods that work with other extension methods they don't know
of. But I think that's what you meant and in this case the
answer at least in my case is yes.
Ah, right. Well, anyway, that's not ADL by itself, since ADL only
looks in the namespace of the argument type (so it won't find
your extension methods if they're in some different
namespace/module).
Unrelated: Since when have C struct had array members? I'm not
so smart in my examples X).
Isn't that the "struct hack" (aka "flexible array member")? :)
