Re: UFCS and constructors

[John Colvin]

On Wednesday, 3 July 2013 at 15:05:29 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:

On 07/03/2013 04:53 PM, John Colvin wrote:

On Wednesday, 3 July 2013 at 03:22:16 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

That is _very_ broken IMHO. It makes no sense for parens to be
optional with
opCall. The whole point of opCall is to overload the parens!

So much about optional parenthesis is broken. I really wish things weren't going that way, it obfusticates the difference between a callable and the result in a really nasty way, and it doesn't work for

function pointers (nor does UFCS unfortunately).

Yes, UFCS works.

struct A {}

void foo(A a) {}

void main()
{
        A a;
        auto foo_ptr = &foo;
        a.foo_ptr(); //Error: undefined identifier 'foo_ptr'
        a.foo_ptr;   //Error: no property 'foo_ptr' for type 'A'
}