On 12/24/2011 10:37 PM, Kapps wrote: > The two biggest things that I believe D would benefit from, in terms of > readability, are UFCS and C#-style lambdas (which were already discussed). > > Something like > 'array(find("test", select!("a.name")(filter!("a.num > 3")(Elements))))' > Could be rewritten much cleaner as > Elements.filter!"a.num > 3" > .select!"a.name" > .find("test") > .array(); > > The first one is very confusing, hard to split across multiple lines > without losing meaning, and difficult to see what it even operates on > (assume Elements is not an array and thus can not be used with the > current implementation of UFCS). The second one, you can clearly see > operates on Elements, you can clearly split it across multiple lines, > and it's very obvious where things stop and end. Plus, it eliminates at > least one set of parenthesis per function call, not to mention being > much easier to write as it's in order of steps instead of opposite order. >
Pardon, what does UFCS stand for?