On Friday, 11 November 2016 at 23:27:30 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Ultimately, the only technical benefit from UFCS is that it
allows you to call a function without caring whether it's a
member function or a free function, which is of great benefit
to generic code and not really much else. Otherwise, it's just
a syntactic preference - albeit one that many people prefer.
- Jonathan M Davis
If many people prefer it - why not develop it further? UCFS,
along with other 'D Gems' is one of the selling points of the
language, after all.