Whence came UFCS?

[Simen Kjærås]

On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 13:38:26 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
wrote:
> On 7/27/18 7:24 AM, Simen Kjærås wrote:
>> Arrays' .reverse, .sort and others were added in 0.24, but I 
>> can't find a download for anything before 0.50.
>
> Reverse and sort were properties (compiler built-ins), not 
> extensions. If it existed in 2002, it's safe to say it was 
> there pretty much from the beginning.

 From what I recall, UFCS for arrays were essentially a bug - an 
unintended side effect of how the properties were implemented. 
But it's been 15 years, so I can't really trust my memory. :p

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   Simen