• =?UTF-8?B?THXDrXM=?= Marques (15/15) Mar 29 2016 Too bad this doesn't work:
• Anonymouse (5/20) Mar 29 2016 By design. I don't remember the rationale, though.
• =?UTF-8?B?THXDrXM=?= Marques (4/7) Mar 29 2016 Cool, I was not aware of that workaround. Also, I wonder if this

=?UTF-8?B?THXDrXM=?= Marques <luis luismarques.eu> writes:

Too bad this doesn't work:

struct Player
{
     MapTile[] playerMap; // partial private knowledge of map
     Location destination;

     auto tile(Location loc)
     {
         return playerMap[loc];
     }

     void foo()
     {
         if(destination.tile.hasMonster)
             ...
     }
}

Anonymouse <asdf asdf.com> writes:

On Tuesday, 29 March 2016 at 14:56:53 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
 Too bad this doesn't work:

 struct Player
 {
     MapTile[] playerMap; // partial private knowledge of map
     Location destination;

     auto tile(Location loc)
     {
         return playerMap[loc];
     }

     void foo()
     {
         if(destination.tile.hasMonster)
             ...
     }
 }

By design. I don't remember the rationale, though.

The ugly workaround if you really don't want to reorganise things 
(and/or use the tile function directly) is to make a top-level 
alias tile = Player.tile;

=?UTF-8?B?THXDrXM=?= Marques <luis luismarques.eu> writes:

On Tuesday, 29 March 2016 at 15:08:05 UTC, Anonymouse wrote:
 The ugly workaround if you really don't want to reorganise 
 things (and/or use the tile function directly) is to make a 
 top-level alias tile = Player.tile;

Cool, I was not aware of that workaround. Also, I wonder if this 
workaround doesn't argue somewhat against the rationale for not 
having member-function UFCS, whatever it was.