On Sunday, 2 December 2012 at 01:04:03 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Sunday, December 02, 2012 01:16:40 Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 11/20/12, Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> I suspect that the
> best that we can hope for at this point is for lax property
> enforcement -
> that is that it's enforced that @property functions are used
> as properties
> but there is no enforcement that non-@property functions be
> called with
> parens.
Here's a good reason why the latter isn't the best idea:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2159
The reporter made the mistake of issuing a function call
instead of
taking an address of a function, which in turn invoked a
different
function overload with the temporary result.
I'd _love_ to make it illegal to call non-property functions
without parens,
and there are definitely folks around here who agree with me,
including some on
the Phobos dev team (e.g. Steven has always agreed with me when
this has come
up), but there are enough folks around here here who like to
call functions
without parens - especially with UFCS and templated functions
like map or
filter - that I don't think that that's going to fly at this
point.
As said before a lot of such usages can be made valid with a sane
semantic using opDispatch.
BTW, I can't edit in the wiki? When I try to do so, it says me
that deadalnix is an invalid username. If I need to register, I
didn't found out how.
