• DH (17/17) Apr 12 2012 Hi. I was wondering why the following works:
• Brad Anderson (10/27) Apr 12 2012 It works for the first argument because UFCS (that is, calling
• H. S. Teoh (7/25) Apr 12 2012 [...]

"DH" <arcticuno gmail.com> writes:

Hi. I was wondering why the following works:

     filter!(a => a % 2 == 0)(map!(a => a + 1)([1,2,3,4,5]))

but the following does not:

     [1,2,3,4,5]
         .map!(a => a + 1)()
         .filter!(a => a % 2 == 0)()

...giving me the error `Error: no property 'filter' for type 
'Result'`

The dot syntax works fine if I'm just doing one map/filter/etc., 
though. Is
there a better way to do chaining like this? Am I 
misunderstanding how the dot
syntax sugar works or how map/filter/etc work in D? I'd prefer 
not to use the
first style as it can get a bit unwieldy...

Thanks for your time!
~DH

"Brad Anderson" <eco gnuk.net> writes:

On Thursday, 12 April 2012 at 17:00:37 UTC, DH wrote:
 Hi. I was wondering why the following works:

     filter!(a => a % 2 == 0)(map!(a => a + 1)([1,2,3,4,5]))

 but the following does not:

     [1,2,3,4,5]
         .map!(a => a + 1)()
         .filter!(a => a % 2 == 0)()

 ...giving me the error `Error: no property 'filter' for type 
 'Result'`

 The dot syntax works fine if I'm just doing one 
 map/filter/etc., though. Is
 there a better way to do chaining like this? Am I 
 misunderstanding how the dot
 syntax sugar works or how map/filter/etc work in D? I'd prefer 
 not to use the
 first style as it can get a bit unwieldy...

 Thanks for your time!
 ~DH

It works for the first argument because UFCS (that is, calling 
free functions as members) works for arrays but not for other 
types (ranges in this case) in DMD <=2.058.  Thanks to the 
intrepid Kenji it works for all types in the upcoming 2.059. You 
can try out the 2.059 beta here: 
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd2beta.zip  Your second example 
should work fine in it.

Regards,
Brad Anderson

"H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> writes:

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 07:00:35PM +0200, DH wrote:
 Hi. I was wondering why the following works:
 
     filter!(a => a % 2 == 0)(map!(a => a + 1)([1,2,3,4,5]))
 
 but the following does not:
 
     [1,2,3,4,5]
         .map!(a => a + 1)()
         .filter!(a => a % 2 == 0)()
 
 ...giving me the error `Error: no property 'filter' for type
 'Result'`
 
 The dot syntax works fine if I'm just doing one map/filter/etc.,
 though. Is there a better way to do chaining like this? Am I
 misunderstanding how the dot syntax sugar works or how map/filter/etc
 work in D? I'd prefer not to use the first style as it can get a bit
 unwieldy...

[...]

The second syntax requires dmd 2.059, which is currently on beta.
Earlier versions of dmd do not support this syntax.


T

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