Carmack about static analysis

[Kapps]

Universal Function Call Syntax. C# calls them extension methods.
Basically, the ability to call a method directly on a class (in the form 
of A.MyMethod) without it being declared in the class. Usually just a 
static/global method that gets rewritten. Instead of MyMethod(A), you 
can use A.MyMethod.

On 25/12/2011 1:51 AM, Chad J wrote:
> On 12/24/2011 10:37 PM, Kapps wrote:
>> The two biggest things that I believe D would benefit from, in terms of
>> readability, are UFCS and C#-style lambdas (which were already discussed).
>>
>> Something like
>> 'array(find("test", select!("a.name")(filter!("a.num>  3")(Elements))))'
>> Could be rewritten much cleaner as
>> Elements.filter!"a.num>  3"
>>      .select!"a.name"
>>      .find("test")
>>      .array();
>>
>> The first one is very confusing, hard to split across multiple lines
>> without losing meaning, and difficult to see what it even operates on
>> (assume Elements is not an array and thus can not be used with the
>> current implementation of UFCS). The second one, you can clearly see
>> operates on Elements, you can clearly split it across multiple lines,
>> and it's very obvious where things stop and end. Plus, it eliminates at
>> least one set of parenthesis per function call, not to mention being
>> much easier to write as it's in order of steps instead of opposite order.
>>
>
> Pardon, what does UFCS stand for?