On Wednesday, 30 January 2013 at 12:04:31 UTC, TommiT wrote:
[..] it is impossible to invent such an implementation of property concept that would make it possible to first put in a public member variable and later on encapsulate it *without* changing the interface.
And frankly, I think it's a good thing. Because this way we can add to D's documentation: "NOTE: properties are *not* inter-changeable with public member variables", and thus, actively discourage people from writing un-encapsulated interfaces which expose public member variables.
