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"
On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 03:41:29 UTC, Sameer Pradhan wrote:
Therefore, after reading the word "Extension" in three
different contexts, I started wondering and various questions
came to mind, starting with---Whence came UFCS?
The answer I always say back in the day for the functionality was
Wow! I am glad to see so many responses! Thanks for your
indulgence.
So, to summarize, the concept (no pun intended) has been around
for a while in D---originally in the context of arrays. It just
might have been a bug, or an unintended side-effect. I intend to
read the archival posts and
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 03:41:29AM +, Sameer Pradhan via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
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> Whence came UFCS?
[...]
As far as I know, UFCS came about from a particular interpretation of
TDPL (Andrei's book). Andrei was talking about the range API, and
inserted a little note about how native
On Friday, July 27, 2018 8:09:02 AM MDT Simen Kjærås via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 13:38:26 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
>
> wrote:
> > On 7/27/18 7:24 AM, Simen Kjærås wrote:
> >> Arrays' .reverse, .sort and others were added in 0.24, but I
> >> can't find a download for
On 7/27/18 10:09 AM, Simen Kjærås wrote:
On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 13:38:26 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On 7/27/18 7:24 AM, Simen Kjærås wrote:
Arrays' .reverse, .sort and others were added in 0.24, but I can't
find a download for anything before 0.50.
Reverse and sort were properties
On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 14:31:24 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
This is the earliest thread I could find in the archives, based
solely on searching for "array" in the title. I almost fell
down the rabbit hole reading some of those old threads, as the
ones I did look at tickled my memory.
On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 14:12:53 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 14:09:02 UTC, Simen Kjærås wrote:
From what I recall, UFCS for arrays were essentially a bug -
an unintended side effect of how the properties were
implemented. But it's been 15 years, so I can't really
On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 14:09:02 UTC, Simen Kjærås wrote:
From what I recall, UFCS for arrays were essentially a bug - an
unintended side effect of how the properties were implemented.
But it's been 15 years, so I can't really trust my memory. :p
You're not alone! That's how I
On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 13:38:26 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
Reverse and sort were properties (compiler built-ins), not
extensions. If it existed in 2002, it's safe to say it was
there pretty much from the beginning.
-Steve
I came to D in 2003. I recall this coming up in the
On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 13:38:26 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
On 7/27/18 7:24 AM, Simen Kjærås wrote:
Arrays' .reverse, .sort and others were added in 0.24, but I
can't find a download for anything before 0.50.
Reverse and sort were properties (compiler built-ins), not
extensions. If
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
On 7/27/18 7:24 AM, Simen Kjærås wrote:
On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 10:30:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
It evolved out of D's member function call syntax for arrays -
basically, for years before we had UFCS in D, we had UFCS for arrays.
However, when and how that was added to arrays, I don't
On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 10:30:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
It evolved out of D's member function call syntax for arrays -
basically, for years before we had UFCS in D, we had UFCS for
arrays. However, when and how that was added to arrays, I don't
know. I don't recall it ever not being
On Friday, July 27, 2018 03:41:29 Sameer Pradhan via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> In the end I thought I might as well dump my thoughts on the D
> forum and hear straight from the horse's (or horses')
> mouth(s)---so to speak.
It evolved out of D's member function call syntax for arrays - basically,
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
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"
[...]
I remember reading somewhere that it's inspired from Nim. I might
be
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