On 1/23/13 5:46 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 January 2013 at 22:24:20 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
that provides absolutely no useful value whatsoever.
Do you think so many of us would be arguing for it and using it if it
was of no value whatsoever?
Note that properties are *not* functions
Indeed, which is why I separate out -property, a stupid waste of time,
and @property, a good idea.
Parenthesis and properties have nothing to do with each other. But when
@property was proposed, we didn't talk about what it *is*
(indistinguishable semantics from the return value), but instead what it
*looks like* (must not be called with parenthesis).
That's where all this pain comes from. Two separate features got
intertwined due to a sloppy DIP.
We need a good DIP on this. UFCS has destroyed all arguments in favor of
requiring parens. There is no question we must do this. Anyone inclined
toward writing a detailed DIP?
Andrei
