On Monday, 2 October 2023 at 17:28:19 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> It's been a long, long while since I published anything on the blog. I do intend to get pick it up again down the road, but Walter recently surprised me with plans of his own. He's taken the topic of his DConf '23 talk and derived a blog post from it:
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> https://dlang.org/blog/2023/10/02/crafting-self-evident-code-with-d/
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> I guess he got impatient with the pace at which I'm getting the talk videos uploaded :-)
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> And for anyone who'd like to engage in any Reddit discussion that comes up:
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> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/16y2h36/crafting_selfevident_code_in_dlang/

Nice article but I think that I found a bug:

    g(f(e(d(c(b(a))),3)));

    a.b.c.d(3).e.f.g;

> "That’s the equivalent, but execution flows clearly left-to-right. Is this an extreme example, or the norm?"

Well I don't think they're equivalent:

    g(f(e(d(c(b(a))),3)));

I the first example "e" is receiving two arguments. While in the latter "d" is being receiving whatever "c" returns and "3".

Matheus.

On 03.10.23 09:36, Max Samukha via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> 'No hire' for language designers who design sum types to be implicitly enumerated and convertible to integers and booleans?
import std.typecons;
void main() => assert(Yes.mate_hiringRedFlag);

On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 at 10:39:19 UTC, matheus wrote:
> I the first example "e" is receiving two arguments. While in the latter "d" is being receiving whatever "c" returns and "3".

That's the point. In UFCS it is immediately obvious which function receives the 3, while with all the parenthesis it takes some time and concentration to find out, and getting it wrong is quiet easy.

On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 at 13:33:29 UTC, Dom DiSc wrote:
> On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 at 10:39:19 UTC, matheus wrote:
>> I the first example "e" is receiving two arguments. While in the latter "d" is being receiving whatever "c" returns and "3".
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> That's the point. In UFCS it is immediately obvious which function receives the 3, while with all the parenthesis it takes some time and concentration to find out, and getting it wrong is quiet easy.

I understand the advantages of the UFCS, I was just pointing out that the example given in that post are NOT equivalent, if it was deliberated or not I don't know, but I think it was just a small mistake, otherwise the author woundn't say they are equivalent.

Matheus.