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reply Andre <andre s-e-a-p.de> writes:
Hi,

I wonder why UCFS is not working for the MIXIN statement?

"writeln(\"Hello World!\");".mixin;

Error: identifier expected following '.', not 'mixin'

This would be some nice syntax sugar.

Kind regards
André
Mar 06 2013
parent reply Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:
On 3/6/13, Andre <andre s-e-a-p.de> wrote:

 I wonder why UCFS is not working for the MIXIN statement?


UFCS is a function feature, not a statement feature. And mixin is a
statement, not a function.
Mar 06 2013
parent reply Andre <andre s-e-a-p.de> writes:
Am 06.03.2013 17:01, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic:

 On 3/6/13, Andre <andre s-e-a-p.de> wrote:

 I wonder why UCFS is not working for the MIXIN statement?


 UFCS is a function feature, not a statement feature. And mixin is a
 statement, not a function.


I suspected s.th. like that, although it feels really component like 
programming if I could write:
funcA().mixin; // func A returns a const string

or also
immutable char[] texture = "file.b".import;

But yes you are right, they are statements and this would be no clean
UCFS syntax and also huge effort to change I think.

Kind regards
André
Mar 06 2013
parent Timon Gehr <timon.gehr gmx.ch> writes:
On 03/06/2013 05:20 PM, Andre wrote:

 Am 06.03.2013 17:01, schrieb Andrej Mitrovic:

 On 3/6/13, Andre <andre s-e-a-p.de> wrote:

 I wonder why UCFS is not working for the MIXIN statement?


 UFCS is a function feature, not a statement feature. And mixin is a
 statement, not a function.


 I suspected s.th. like that, although it feels really component like
 programming if I could write:
 funcA().mixin; // func A returns a const string

 or also
 immutable char[] texture = "file.b".import;

 But yes you are right, they are statements  and this would be no clean
 UCFS syntax and also huge effort to change I think.
 ...


No, it's a max. 5 min parser hack.
Mar 06 2013