DMD v2.066.0-b2

[Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 7/10/14, 2:35 AM, Bob wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 15:39:50 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 14:57:01 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote:
>>> My concern is that this shouldn't compile in the first place. What is
>>> xyz?, Is it a free function? Is it a member variable or function?  In
>>> my mind it is neither of the two so why does it compile?
>>
>> Oh, but that's precisely the point of opDispatch. ;) It offers a
>> mechanism to respond to any members that are not found. See the spec
>> for an example: http://dlang.org/operatoroverloading.html#Dispatch
>>
>> David
>
> Exactly. opDispatch catches calls to missing methods and acts based on
> method name which it gets as a string at compile time. In this case, the
> idea is this:
>
>          auto v1 = Vec!4(4, 5, 6, 7);
>          auto v2 = v1.xyz;   // => Vec!3(4, 5, 6);
>          auto v3 = v1.wx;    // => Vec!2(7, 4);
>          auto v4 = v1.wxx1;  // => Vec!4(7, 4, 4, 1);

Okay, got it. Thanks to both you and David for the clarification. A bug 
report was filed:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13087