"static" UFCS

[Artur Skawina]

On 06/14/12 16:19, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-06-14 14:33, deadalnix wrote:
> 
>> I already think that static method was a bad idea from the « everything
>> have to be an object » time.
>>
>> The need for static function is pretty weak when we have free function
>> and that they can access private objects data as needed.
>>
>> What would be the use case for such a feature ?
> 
> Originally the idea pop up in my head when I was thinking if it was possible to implement, in library code, the magic meta namespace the community has been talking about a couple of times in the past.
> 
> Something like this:
> 
> import std.meta;
> 
> class Foo
> {
>     void bar (){}
> }
> 
> auto methods = Foo.meta.methods;

Polluting local namespaces with magic identifiers is a really bad idea.
What's wrong with "auto methods = meta!Foo.methods;" which works right now?

artur