feature req: extend property syntax func calls to classes, interfaces, primitives? also, final interface methods w. code

[Henning Hasemann]

On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:54:43 -0700
"David B. Held" <dheld at codelogicconsulting.com> wrote:

> Downs wrote:
> > [...]
> > 1) to extend the property syntax to classes and interfaces, _maybe_ even 
> > arrays and primitive types.
> > Such a change would allow one to write "interface barf { } void 
> > test(barf b) { do stuff; } myBarf.test; "
> 
> This is related to a proposal to allow both member and free function 
> call syntax.  That is:
> 
> a.foo();
> 
> could also be called as:
> 
> foo(a);

Maybe the Dylan language (http://www.opendylan.org) would be of interest here,
where actually no such thing such class methods exists
but only global multi-dispatched methods with the syntactic
sugar described above.
Of cause that are totally different semantics but maybe one or an other
thing of dylan design/implementation is interesting for D.

Henning

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