UFCS in template function

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Wed Aug 28 23:23:31 PDT 2013


On 2013-08-28 23:28, ixid wrote:
> UFCS does not work in this template where the normal function call
> syntax will work:
>
> template test(alias fun) {
>      auto test(T)(T n) {
>          return n.fun;
>      }
> }
>
> Is this the same as the inability to use UFCS with functions declared in
> the same scope as the call? Is there no way to address this issue
> without messing with calling class members (that is what I understand to
> be the reason for the limitation on UFCS, I may have misunderstood). It
> also prevents the use of function literals in UFCS chains which seems
> like a great pity and the loss of what should be a very natural part of
> the language.

UFCS only works for module level functions.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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