memory management and the standard library

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 10:50:15AM +0100, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 2019-03-15 00:06, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 
> > OTOH, though, these twists and turns in the development of the
> > language are also an integral part of what it is; UFCS, for example,
> > came about from a clever hack added in order to make built-in arrays
> > compatible with the then newly-introduced range API. Later on,
> > people clamored for this "hack" to be extended to other types and
> > become officially accepted. It was a huge success IMO. Nowadays, I
> > can't imagine writing D code without UFCS.
> 
> That's not what happened. UFCS for arrays existed in D1, long before
> D2 and when ranges were introduced.
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Wasn't that a parser quirk or something that was later taken advantage
of?


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