On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 01:52:36 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
To me the whole property discussion looks like one of those
endless debates about an insignificant detail.
Scala and Ruby seem to do well with sloppy parens.
Strict typing and explicitness has a real effect on code
legibility and maintenance. D is trying too hard to be a
scripting language. Taking away getter/setter typing just
reinforce that impression.
With the introduction of UFCS it became clear that nobody likes
byLine().array().sort().release(), and even less
rng.release.sort().array().front.
Introduce a pipeline operator. Chaining processes with dot
operators has always been an ugly old OO hack.
For some functions it's really hard to decide whether or not
something is a property, e.g. for me Range.save is an
action/function not a property. So for me using @property
appears to waste time making pointless decisions.
If it is hard to decide then that probably means that the model
is flawed and needs more work.
D really needs to start strengthening the type system, rather
than eroding it.
