Lutger wrote:
Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
Ary Borenszweig Wrote:
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For instance properties seem to be a fundamental thing in Delphi and C#.
When you are debugging and you watch some varaible, the debugger
automatically allows you to expand a node and see the varaible's
properties. You can't do that with D because any function that has zero
parameters could be a property, even though some functions aren't
properties.
While working on QtD I have also come up with the conclusion that D needs
proper properties. Qt itself greatly relies on properties and it makes a
lot of cool things possible. Of course C++ doesn't support them, it is
done via Qt metatype system. When D goes popular, IDEs will severely lack
this functionality from the language.
There have been a lot of discussions on this topic in the past but I can't
recall any conclusions. Perhaps some brave soul would dare to write a DIP on
properties?
Yes please.
Andrei
