dmd 1.073 and 2.058 release

[Timon Gehr]

On 02/16/2012 07:10 AM, Caligo wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Jonathan M Davis<jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  wrote:
>> On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 23:38:33 Bill Baxter wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 20:47:27 Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> * Allow 1.userproperty syntax
>>>
>>> Where is this odd-sounding beast documented?
>>>
>>> And what is UFCS?
>>
>> Universal Function Call Syntax. The idea is that any function can be called as
>> if it were a member function. The member function call syntax that arrays have
>> is a version of this but isn't general/universal, whereas _universal_ function
>> call syntax would apply to all types. So, stuff like 1.abs() and 5.max(3)
>> become legal. It also means that you can declare functions which take a class
>> or struct as their first parameter and call them as if they were member
>> functions of that class/struct.
>>
>> But it can introduce ambiguities - especially when dealing with structs or
>> classes which can have member functions of their own. So, there's been some
>> debate as to how it should be implemented - or even _if_ it should be
>> implemented, though the basic idea is fairly popular.
>>
>>  From the sound of it, at least property functions with integers can now be
>> used with UFCS, since at least that level of UFCS is required to declare
>> properties for built-in types.
>>
>> @property auto prop(int value) { ... }
>> auto value = 7.prop;
>>
>> But that's just a guess, asthe changelog obviously isn't very descriptive. So,
>> I have no idea what exactly has been implemented for that one line in the
>> changelog - hence my question.
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
>
> float x = 1.f;  // GIVES ERROR
>
> float y = 0.f;  // OK
>
> what's up with that?  Is that a bug?

Yes.