On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 at 12:23:11 UTC, Simen Kjærås wrote:
Of course, nothing stops us from defining our own front,
popFront and friends that combine the two approaches above:
[...]
We could conceivably add these to std.range.primitives
(probably adding some constraints first), and suddenly UFCS
ranges are possible! (I am as of yet not convinced that we
should, though)
--
Simen
This is basically what C++ calls "argument-dependent lookup."
Discussion about adding this sort of thing to D has come up
before on the forums [1], and iirc Walter has generally been
opposed to it. If it were to be added as a library feature, it
would probably have to be opt-in.
[1]
https://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.123.1472818535.2965.digitalmar...@puremagic.com
