[OT] Modules dropped out of C++17

Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 9 00:21:43 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 06:54:39 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> On 08/06/15 22:24, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> "Unified call syntax. This proposal, by Bjarne, seeks to unify 
>> the
>> member (x.f(y)) and non-member (f(x, y)) call syntaxes by 
>> allowing
>> functions of either kind to be invoked by syntax of either 
>> kind."
> Dear god, I hope this doesn't pass.
>
> It is one of the most confusing aspects of D. It makes it close 
> to impossible to locate the definition for a function used.
>
> Shachar

It is no different than extension methods in .NET, Ceylon, 
Kotlin, multi-methods in CLOS or implicits in Scala.


I just mouse hover, press F12/Ctrl+Right Mouse and in less than 
5s is the method visible.


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