On 10 August 2013 13:27, JS <[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. >> > > > Here is my mindless proposal after reading some of the posts. > > > 1. Properties are data. Cannot be called with parenthesis, unless it returns > a delegate, in which case the delegate is called. The address of a property > is invalid(possibly gotten through a trait). > > 2. Properties cannot be used in UFCS calls, unless they return a delegate. > Only UFCS chaining allows for parenthesis-less calls. e.g., (). -> . > > Properties are great, C# doesn't have any issues with them... so why should > D? From the little reading, the best I can tell is that the issue comes > directly from UFCS and trying to avoid using parenthesis. >
Might be wrong "cause I've only spent 5 minutes looking at it severall months ago" but C#'s properties are just simple getter/setter's, no? -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
