ADL

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/3/2016 2:31 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> std.algorithm is extremely simple,

That's actually a nice compliment! (Though credit for that goes to Andrei, not me.)


> it doesn't do anything except raw
> algorithm-ey stuff. It doesn't attempt to invoke functionality on the
> data it's working on.

Sure it does, usually via a lambda passed to it.

Recall that C++ ADL predates C++ lambdas by more than a decade, which may 
explain why C++ has come to rely on ADL.