How is the D programming language financed?

[spir]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:18:06 -0600
Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> > module testmodule;
> >
> > import std.string : split;
> > import std.stdio : writeln;
> >
> > string modulename = split(.stringof)[1];
> >
> > void main()
> > {
> >      writeln(modulename);
> > }  
> 
> What the... I didn't know you can do that. Thanks for the tip!

What is this syntactic form (".something")? Is there an explicit alternative, with a prefix?

Denis
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