Bad At The Game,

Do you have a response for
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p3027r0.html "UFCS
is a breaking change, of the absolutely worst kind"?


On Sun, Sep 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM Bad At The Game via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hi, I tried to take another approach at UFCS, Here
>
>
> https://github.com/ZXShady/proposals/blob/main/alternative_free_function_call_syntax.md
>
> It isn't professionally written I tried my best.
>
> I like free functions but I don't like them syntax wise, I prefer left to
> right reading in most cases than inside out and sometimes left to right at
> same time.
>
> ```cpp
> auto collisions = getCollisionBoxes(expanded(translated(aabb,
> position), vel), dimension, block_registry);
> ```
>
> this is hard to read but I don't want to have intermediary variables that
> have no meaningful names.
>
> While with that proposal it would allow
> ```cpp
> auto collisions = aabb.
> .math::translated(position)
> .math::expanded(vel)
> .gameLogic::getCollisionBoxes(dimension, block_registry);
> ```
>
>
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