UFCS and constructors

[monarch_dodra]

On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 12:46:42 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 07/02/2013 09:35 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:
>> which looks *very* confusing when written that way.
>>
>
> I disagree, even though the example appears to be specifically 
> designed to confuse. Actual usage looks like this:
>
> import std.stdio, std.bigint
>
> void main(){
>     writeln(2.BigInt ^^ 123456);
> }

Yeah... tailored for confusion... that could be the biggest issue 
actually:

I always get surprised when arrays are 1 item initialized, and 
even more so when done in a struct via aggregate initialization. 
I'd say *that* was actually the bigger culprit in my example, and 
the one that lead to my confusion, which I then blamed (or 
"called wolf") on UFCS "If it wasn't for UFCS, that would have 
been turned down!" UFCS actually had nothing to do with it. :(

Well, thanks for the explanation and debunk.