Type helpers instead of UFCS

[BBasile via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 20:54:09 UTC, Enamex wrote:
> On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 20:40:35 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
> wrote:
>> On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 20:37:37 UTC, BBasile wrote:
>>> - code completion in IDE. It'will never work.
>>
>> Why not? I haven't actually tried it, but it seems like a 
>> pretty easy problem, except perhaps with complex templates.
>>
>>> - noobs, code is unreadable.
>>
>> meh
>
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> With a dedicated syntax, specific functions/groups-of-functions 
> could be easily recognized as extensions of a type and could 
> even be made to be recognized by templates

You've got the idea. IDE plugins can not decently provide 
completion based on the UFCS possibilities. With something like a 
type helper, it's more likely to work.