Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Huh. How does this reconcile with your previous posts, where you said
it'd probably be a bad idea for the API designer to mandate the
function calling style of the API consumer?
Is this the same issue, and you've changed your mind? Or do you see
this as a different issue?
I found the way he put it - avoiding gratuitous inconsistency between
fields and properties - a compelling perspective.
That's improper netiquette. The correct netiquette is to never give an
iota, regardless.