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diff --git a/doc/manual/procs.txt b/doc/manual/procs.txt index 9d00b7e3c..ee74b2ea6 100644 --- a/doc/manual/procs.txt +++ b/doc/manual/procs.txt @@ -137,6 +137,14 @@ to supply any type of first argument for procedures: Another way to look at the method call syntax is that it provides the missing postfix notation. +The method call syntax conflicts with explicit generic instantiations: +``p[T](x)`` cannot be written as ``x.p[T]`` because ``x.p[T]`` is always +parsed as ``(x.p)[T]``. + +**Future directions**: ``p[.T.]`` might be introduced as an alternative syntax +to pass explict types to a generic and then ``x.p[.T.]`` can be parsed as +``x.(p[.T.])``. + See also: `Limitations of the method call syntax`_. |