UFCS is good but there are two huge problems:
- code completion in IDE. It'will never work.
- noobs, code is unreadable.
That's why I propose the new keywords 'helper' and 'subject' that
will allow to extend the properties pre-defined for a type, as
long as the helper is imported:
---
module myhelper;
helper for subject : string
{
void writeln()
{
import std.stdio;
writeln(subject);
}
}
---
this will allow IDE plugins to provide better completion.
for example if 'Peter' types
---
void foo()
{
import myhelper;
"foobarbaz".
}
---
after the dot, 'Peter' can get ".writeln".
Why ? because a clear grammatical construction will allow an IDE
plugin to work on a type and provides additional helpers that
would be hard to put in the list without any specific grammatical
construction.
...
