Thanks! You can see this as a joke now:

So the standard library needs a cleanup, hopefully someone will push it
forward when the UFCS arrives.


On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:12 PM Jason McKesson via Std-Proposals <
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> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 9:33 AM blacktea hamburger via Std-Proposals
> <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks. So can you explain why other languages (like D) have UFCS? How
> do they solve these problems? Or do they simply not care about them?
>
> Since we're talking about "large-scale programs", is D a language that
> should be discussed in that context?
>
> Note that Ville specifically pointed to a change from one thing to
> another. If it had always been the other thing from the start, then
> you could argue that UFCS is fine, because there is no existing code
> that had different expectations. But that's not C++.
>
> You cannot treat an existing language with literally billions of lines
> of code like a playground/testbed upon which you can make whatever
> changes you want. Changes like UFCS which change *fundamental
> assumptions* upon which various code was written is... complicated.
> Even if what you're changing it to is manageable, it's still forcing a
> new set of base assumptions upon code that was never written to handle
> those assumptions.
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