Discussion Thread: DIP 1043--Shortened Method Syntax--Community Review Round 1

[Timon Gehr]

On 2/4/22 20:44, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Friday, 4 February 2022 at 17:59:40 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 04.02.22 18:18, Tejas wrote:
>>> On Friday, 4 February 2022 at 14:46:39 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>>>>     this(string y) => this(0, y);
>>>>     this(string y) { this(0, y); }
>>> ...
>>
>> If you have to violate common style guidelines in order to support a 
>> claim that the status quo is not so much worse, then probably the new 
>> syntax is actually significantly better. (Razvan did the same in the 
>> feedback thread, I don't get why people are doing this. Would this 
>> really fly, e.g., in Phobos?)
> 
> It's not super common, but it does show up. Some examples:
> 
> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/v2.098.1/std/algorithm/setops.d#L901
> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/v2.098.1/std/algorithm/iteration.d#L2051-L2052 
> 
> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/v2.098.1/std/encoding.d#L487-L549
> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/v2.098.1/std/datetime/systime.d#L9564-L9574 
> 
> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/v2.098.1/std/math/exponential.d#L2748-L2755 
> 
> https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/v2.098.1/std/experimental/allocator/building_blocks/stats_collector.d#L199-L200 
> 

Thanks! I guess one way to interpret this is that there should be 
shortened method syntax to replace those. ;)