Phobos PR: `call` vs. `bindTo`

[Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 7 August 2014 at 11:47:02 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On 05/08/2014 23:10, Meta wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 5 August 2014 at 19:31:08 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
>> Digitalmars-d
>> wrote:
>>> There are currently two Phobos PR's that implement 
>>> essentially the same
>>> functionality, but in slightly different ways:
>>
>> I don't think either is particularly useful. This is something 
>> that's
>> either part of the language, or doesn't exist.
>
> I think it should be part of the language (UFCS for lambda 
> functions):
>
> some.long.ufcs.chain.(x => x + x/2).writeln;
>
> This can be useful in real code to avoid breaking a UFCS chain 
> and having to introduce a temporary variable, which is more 
> ugly.

This syntax will also allow UFCS with fully qualified names, with 
functions-in-variables and with methods.