Maybe you would like UFCS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax e.g. Nim has i

Maybe you would like UFCS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax e.g. Nim has it, and it lets you do this: proc add(self: MyList, e: int) = # [insert append code here] mylist.add(1) # equivalent to add(mylist, 1) Though I'm not sure how well it would work with C, considering it lacks function overloading.