Article: the feature that makes D my favorite programming language

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 01:28:34PM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 July 2020 at 11:12:16 UTC, aberba wrote:
> > Oop! Chaining the writeln too could have increased the wow factor. I
> > didn't see that.
> 
> oh I hate it when people do that though, it just looks off to me at
> that point.

Me too.  It gives me the same creepie-feelies as when people write
writeln(x) as:

	writeln = x;

Actually, D's lax syntax surrounding the = operator gives rise to the
following reverse-UFCS nastiness:

	// Cover your eyes (unless you're reverse-Polish :-P)! and don't
	// do this at home, it will corrupt your sense of good coding
	// style!
	import std;
	void main() {
		writeln = filter!(x => x % 3 == 1)
			= map!(x => x*2)
			= [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ];
	}

	// Output: [4, 10]


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