UFCS for D

[Piotr Szturmaj]

Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/29/2012 5:09 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> The reason being, if you change anything in class A, you do not have
>> to worry
>> about the implementation of getXSquared, because it simply has no
>> access to the
>> private implementation. You only have to worry about internal methods,
>> and
>> friend functions.
>
> Ok, I see what you're talking about. It has nothing to do with UFCS, it
> is D's design decision to not have explicit friends, but to make
> everything in a module implicitly a friend.
>
> I think it's far superior to the explicit friend thing in C++.

Just curious. Did you take it from Delphi? :-)