Unified function call syntax

[Sergey Gromov]

Manfred_Nowak <svv1999 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Frank Benoit wrote:
> > Is this a bug or feature?
> It should be a feature.
> One should be able to introduce the global `equal' by an alias within 
> the body of the class:
> 
>     alias .equal equal;

I think it should be a bug.  When defining

	bool equals(char[] a, char[] b) {...}

you essentially define (semantically)

	class char[] {
		bool equals(char[] b) {...}
	}

Therefore calling A.equals() instead of char[].equals() is not correct.  
Generally speaking, for any given expression, expr.method(), the unified 
function call mechanism should only consider methods accessible from 
typeof(expr) context, not from current scope.