Reduce the need for backtracking while typing
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There are situations in VB today where you're dotting through an API and you realize you run into a wall that requires backtracking. Examples include needing to perform a cast or needing to await a `Task`. It breaks the flow of typing/thinking. It can also create a situation where a lot of ceremony starts accruing on the left like multiple `CType` or `Await` keywords very far from what they relate to.
In English, sentences are most often structured in Subject-Verb-Object form. This usually fits in well with object-oriented syntax where the subject is the receiver, the verb is the method, and the arguments are the objects: `subject.Verb(object)`. But, there are also times where this order is warped by the way an API is designed (sometimes necessarily).
``` VB.NET
' For performance reasons this isn't an instance methods.
Dim upper As Char = Char.ToUpper(ch)
```
In some cases this can be mitigated through the use of extension methods. Extension methods take the less natural `Verb(subject, object)` form and arrange it ... fluently.
``` VB.NET
' An extension method makes this read subject-verb.
Dim upper As Char = ch.ToUpper()
```
A number of proposals have showed up lately that all seem to share a theme of their proponents trying to reduce or eliminate backtracking, either as their primary benefit or a significant secondary one such as #138, #116, and #59.
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