Precedences of unary minus and dot operators

[simendsjo]

On Friday, 8 November 2013 at 12:53:24 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
> On Friday, 8 November 2013 at 12:49:38 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>> This is something that has come out of a thread I have opened 
>> in D.learn.
>>
>> In the thread qznc has answered me:
>>
>>> Operator precedence of "." is higher than unary minus.
>>
>>
>> That's right:
>>
>>
>> double foo(in double x) {
>>    assert (x >= 0);
>>    return x;
>> }
>> void main() {
>>    assert(-1.foo == -1);
>> }
>>
>>
>> Is this a good design of the operator precedences? Is this 
>> worth changing/fixing?
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
>
> From my POV this is good design. When I see:
> assert(-1.foo == -1);
> Is same for me as:
> assert(-foo(1) == -1);

If I saw this, I would have to test it to be sure.. I feel it's 
in the same area as several post/pre increment/decrement in the 
same line.