On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 05:22:17 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 03:41:29 UTC, Sameer Pradhan wrote:
During our Boston D Meetup today, we went through and
deconstructed Walter's wonderfully elegant blog post from 2012
called "Component Programming in D"
[...]
Extension methods were added to C# 3.0 in 2007, UFCS was
discussed as a generalization of the concept to free functions
at that year's DConf, fully implemented years later:
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
The DConf slides linked from that old thread list this 2000 Scott
Meyers article as an inspiration for UFCS:
http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/how-non-member-functions-improve-encapsu/184401197
