On Wednesday, 4 September 2013 at 02:26:27 UTC, Timothee Cour
wrote:
that's the whole point, it allows to transparently replace a
field access
by a property function call without breaking client code. How
else would
you do that?
You can't replace field access with function call transparently
if it has side effects. In the end breakage may be even worse.
For me only replacing @property fields with @property methods
makes sense (with former prohibited to be taken address of and
latter forced to be weakly pure).'
