On Jan 24, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Nathan M. Swan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 08:35:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> This has turned into a monster. We've taken 2 or 3 wrong turns somewhere.
>>
>> Perhaps we should revert to a simple set of rules.
>>
>> 1. Empty parens are optional. If there is an ambiguity with the return value
>> taking (), the () go on the return value.
>>
>> 2. the:
>> f = g
>> rewrite to:
>> f(g)
>> only happens if f is a function that only has overloads for () and (one
>> argument). No variadics.
>>
>> 3. Parens are required for calling delegates or function pointers.
>>
>> 4. No more @property.
>
> What about code that's always ignored @property?
>
>
> int delegate() _del;
>
> int delegate() getDelegate() {
> return _del;
> }
>
> auto del = getDelegate(); // does _del get called?
I think a clarification of rule 1 is that parens will be right-associative. So
in your example, _del would be called.
