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Re:Implementing UFCS for C++ in Clang by gpderetta on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:42AM (#24048590)
what would it break? It litterally was proposed by an extension, with support from Stroustrup.

IIRC Stroustrup regrets using . for member function calls (as opposed to just some syntactic sugar for any function call)

Re:Implementing UFCS for C++ in Clang by leni536 on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @04:47PM (#24054330)
The way it was worded in the GP comment would change name lookup in existing well-formed programs, making them fail to compile, or compile differently.

I'm not familiar with Stroustrup's proposal, but I doubt that he proposed it without some opt-in annotation.