Re: Meaning of the dot-function syntax

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On Sunday, 1 October 2023 at 08:22:48 UTC, dhs wrote:

Hi,

What's the meaning of the dot in the call to writeln() below?

```d
    .writeln("Hello there!");
```

I haven't found this in the spec or anywhere else. This is used very often in the source code for Phobos.

Thanks,
dhs

Quote https://dlang.org/spec/module.html#module_scope_operators;

A leading dot (`.`) causes the identifier to be looked up in the module scope.

```d
int x;

int foo(int x)
{
    if (y)
        return x;  // returns foo.x, not global x
    else
        return .x; // returns global x
}
```