Phobos PR: `call` vs. `bindTo`

[Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 20:12:16 UTC, Ary Borenszweig 
wrote:
> On 8/5/14, 4:29 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> There are currently two Phobos PR's that implement essentially 
>> the same
>> functionality, but in slightly different ways:
>>
>> 	https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/1255
>> 	https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2343
>>
>>>From the discussion on Github, it seems to me that we should 
>>>only
>> introduce one new function rather than two similar but
>> not-quite-the-same functions. Since the discussion seems stuck 
>> on
>> Github, I thought I should bring it here to the larger 
>> community to see
>> if we can reach a consensus (who am I kidding... but one can 
>> hope :-P)
>> on:
>>
>> (1) What name to use (bring on the bikeshed rainbow)
>> (2) Exactly what functionality should be included.
>> (3) Which PR to merge.
>>
>>
>> T
>>
>
> It's called "variable declaration" in imperative languages, and 
> I think D has that.

Yes, D has variable declarations, but it doesn't allow you to 
declare them mid-expression for the limited scope of an 
expression - and that's what `bindTo` aims to achieve.