Blog post: What D got wrong

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On Tuesday, 11 December 2018 at 20:44:28 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 December 2018 at 15:34:28 UTC, Simen Kjærås 
> wrote:
>>
>> I believe a reasonable case can be made for .! for UFCS - it's 
>> currently invalid syntax and will not compile, and ! is the 
>> symbol we already associate with template instantiation:
>>
>> alias memberFunctions = __traits(allMembers, T)
>>     .!staticMap!Member
>>     .!Filter!(isSomeFunction);
>>
>> --
>>   Simen
>
> Perhaps. I also think that it might be good if types could be 
> results of compile-ime expressions, including ufcs expressions 
> (so that 42.typeof would become legal, meaning an int).

I vaguely remember a very ancient version of D that had 
<expression>.typeof instead of typeof(<expression>). This 
might've been D1... the details are fuzzy.