C++ UFCS update

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 08:24:50 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 02/14/2016 10:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> Wasn't it us who chose the term UFCS?
>
> Can't be. Other languages take features from C++ but never 
> admit it. ;)

I think it would be a good idea to drop this microscopic search 
for novelty. It is borderline pathetic...

I don't think Stroustrup has said that C++ has introduced novel 
features. What C++ has done is to integrate many known features 
with few restrictions on how to use them. D has done much of the 
same, but with more restrictions.

Other languages have provided various OO syntaxes and extension 
methods etc since the 70s or 80s, and it has probably been 
discussed for C++ before it was implemented in D.

UFCS/UCS is more a sign of starting with a non-OO language and 
adding OO-methods at a later stage. Pure OO languages implement 
the global scope as an object and "free functions" are just 
members of an outer scope.