A nice D coding pattern

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 11/25/2014 10:58 AM, Tobias Pankrath wrote:

 >> void main() {
 >>     // Created at compile-time.
 >>     enum something = "........".Foo;
 >>
 >
 > I don't think we should encourage UFCS with typenames or uppercase
 > names. If anything, it does not provide any benefit in this case and
 > Foo(".....") is much more clearer without any syntactical overhead.

Agreed.

A guideline that makes sense to me is "UFCS is for when the function can 
be thought of as a special operation on its first parameter."

After seeing bearophile's code, I thought that even the following was 
better than UFCS:

     "hello".to!Foo

It only then feels like a special operation on "hello". (I haven't tried 
the code but I think it works.)

However, I would still use the Foo("hello").

Ali