Vision for the D language - stabilizing complexity?

[Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/07/16 13:25, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/12/2016 12:35 AM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>> UFCS: Anywhere you can do "func(a)" you can also do "a.func()" and vice
>> versa.
>>
>> Operator ->: Not needed, as we know this is a pointer to a struct. We
>> automatically dereference with the dot operator.
>>
>> struct A {
>>      void method() {}
>> }
>>
>> void main() {
>>      A* a;
>>
>>      a.method(); // Okay
>>      method(a);  // Not okay
>> }
>
> I'm afraid I don't know what you're driving at with those examples.
>

It is a single example. It shows that when UCFS and the lack of operator 
-> try to play together, the result is no longer as simple and elegant 
as one tries to sell them. It was given as a response to Andrei's 
request for examples of cross-features interference causing complexity.

Shachar