Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
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>
> Which is one of the reasons that I really don't like the idea. Sometimes 
> it's
> nice with strings, but it creates inconsistencies, and stuff like 5.max(7) 
> just
> seems insane. UFCS will give people more freedom and may help templates in
> some cases, but I think that it's a major step back for readibility in
> general.
>

This is why C# requires that you declare a function to be UFCS in order to 
actualy use it with UFCS syntax (although they don't call it UFCS). I used 
to be pretty strongly in favor of that, but I've since gotten used to D's 
lax-ness about it.