Just where has this language gone wrong?

[Jens Mueller]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:24:04 -0400
> Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 7/21/12 6:16 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > > Yea. I used Java in college and ever since then I've been a fan of
> > > non-verbose systax - ie syntax that's the *opposite* of Java ;)
> > 
> > On slide 19 of the OSCON slides there's this sample:
> > 
> > auto s = ["abc", "a", "xz"];
> > auto m = s.argmin!((x) => x.length);
> > 
> > People in the audience were quite pleasantly surprised to figure that 
> > although there's no mention of a type, that code is all the compiler 
> > needs to figure there's a lambda that takes a string and returns an 
> > unsigned integer etc.
> > 
> 
> Exactly. And what many people (depressingly) don't realize, is
> that dynamic typing (or OO boxing) is NOT needed to achieve that.
> 
> I was actually impressed with that slide, too, but for a different
> reason: I've come across need for a function like argmin on occasion,
> but I didn't know it existed (Don't recall if it was actually in D, may
> have been another language I was using). That really is a fantastically
> useful function.

Where is argmin defined? I couldn't find it.

Jens