Whence came UFCS?

[Sameer Pradhan]

Wow! I am glad to see so many responses!  Thanks for your 
indulgence.

So, to summarize, the concept (no pun intended) has been around 
for a while in D---originally in the context of arrays. It just 
might have been a bug, or an unintended side-effect. I intend to 
read the archival posts and might have something to say later.

--
Sameer

PS: I realize that I am a stickler for history, or rather 
historical contexts related to technology or research that I am 
involved in, and more recently regarding programming language 
concepts.  The culprit is probably the fact that I have been 
teaching programming languages course (or, taught one semester of 
it, and plan to teach it again in Spring) which has allowed me to 
learn of the origins of so many concepts which we sometimes take 
for granted today, but were part of some old languages.

PS1: I didn't want to respond to a particular thread, but there 
is no way in this forum to write a generic response to multiple 
posts so I am picking one as the anchor.