On Sunday, 3 February 2013 at 08:16:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
Walter and I have had a discussion on how to finalize
properties.
http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP23
We got input from DIP21 (which we didn't want to clobber, hence
the new DIP) and the recent discussion.
The proposal probably won't be accepted in its current form
because it breaks some code. We hope to bring it to good shape
with everyone's help.
In brief:
* Optional parens stay.
* Just mentioning a function or method without parens does NOT
automatically take its address. (This is a change from the
current behavior.)
* Read properties (using @property) work as expected with the
mention that they may NOT be called with the parens. Any parens
would apply to the returned value.
* Write properties (using @property) may only be used in the
assignment form (no function-style call allowed).
It is understood that the current proposal is just a draft and
there must be quite a few corner cases it doesn't discuss. We
also understand it's impossible to reconcile all viewpoints and
please all tastes. Our hope is to get to a point where the
rules are self-consistent, meaningful, and complete.
Destroy.
Andrei
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
Smash.
