Required Reading: "How Non-Member Functions Improve Encapsulation"

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On Tuesday, 31 October 2017 at 02:10:26 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
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> Except... then you can't use generic code with UFCS.
>
> For example, arrays couldn't be ranges, because you can't just 
> do arr.front, you'd have to do arr.\front.
>
> -Steve

Mmm... it sounds complex ;-)

to make it worse, I can apparently call func() with the 
parenthesis:

obj.func;

now, is func an attribute of obj?
is it a method of obj?
is it a free function?

these syntactic abstractions are leaky...we need to encapsulate 
intent too ;-)