UFCS is just awesome

[fedvasu]

I a noob at D, I am an intermediate java programmer, I am 
learning C++ for my next project(employment). I knew about D, I 
always felt like D is "C++: The good parts(TM) without tooling". 
I dabbled a bit in D (a few project euler problems,nothing major) 
DMD and LDC work flawlessly on fedora (good job maintainers! very 
much appreciated).

I am casually browsing Ali Cehrli's book in my free time.Thanks 
Ali for a decent resource.
(First post so please tolerate the thank yous and me toos)

Coming to the point.

I read this article by Walter 
(http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/uniform-function-call-syntax/232700394)

I think it is way awesome, I mean seriously I am one of the 
(junior)maintainers for a large codebase(>2 million SLOC java) 
for our customer. I was like can't we just have a few static 
functions in a class and could use them as if they are methods of 
our class?(atleast for new classes we create) We have a crap load 
of fat classes and boy I have a headache when I have to peek into 
10000+ SLOC classes,lot of repetition.

I even liked the article more when Walter mentions STL's approach 
(Algorithms + Iterators + Containers) and clearly stated why 
extension methods are inferior to UFCS (more boiler-plate and 
call syntax restrictions).

I think small things like this add upto a lot for long term 
maintainability of application software.

I am more intrigued about D than before!