On 12/12/2011 9:28 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Monday, December 12, 2011 21:17:10 Mehrdad wrote:
Member functions always take precedence in C#, and it works perfectly
well. There's really no problem in practice.
I'm not saying that it can't be done. I'm just saying that all of the corner
cases and the like have to be sorted out such that the feature is completely
defined, and we don't have ambiguities that are going to cause problems. Things
are complicated enough with alias this and opDispatch and the like. Adding yet
another way to add functions to a type complicates things that much further.
So, UFCS needs to be carefully designed, and that's more of an issue IMHO than
the exact syntax used to determine if a function is supposed to work with
UFCS.
- Jonathan M Davis
Just wondering, what _are_ the corner cases?
Whatever is already accessible through the object would automatically
override -- whether it's alias this, opDispatch, or whatever. Only if
everything fails, then would extension methods work.
Wouldn't that work?
