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'''Uniform Function Call Syntax''' (UFCS) or sometimes '''Universal Function Call Syntax''' is a [[programming language]] feature in [[D (programming language)|D]] and [[Rust (programming language)|Rust]]<ref>https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ufcs.html</ref> that allows any function to be called

using the syntax for method calls (as in [[object-oriented programming]]), by using the [[receiver (object oriented programming)|receiver]] as the first parameter, and the given arguments as the remaining parameters.<ref>http://dlang.org/function.html#pseudo-member</ref> UFCS is particularly useful when function calls are chained,<ref>http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ufcs.html</ref> behaving similar to pipes, or various dedicated operators available in functional languages for passing values through an expression. It allows free-functions to fillsfill a role similar to [[extension method]]s in some other languages. Another benefit of the method call syntax is use with 'dot-autocomplete' in [[IDE (computing)|IDE]]s, which use type information to show a list of available functions, dependant on the context. When the programmer starts with an argument, the set of potentially applicable functions is greatly narrowed down, aiding discoverability.

== C++ proposal ==