[OT] Modules dropped out of C++17

Joakim via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 9 00:27:25 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.

Perhaps Dscanner's declaration finder (the -d flag) or DCD would 
make your life easier.  I use Dscanner all the time and miss it 
when I'm stuck with grep for C nowadays:

https://github.com/Hackerpilot/Dscanner
https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD


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