On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:13:24 -0400, KennyTM~ <[email protected]> wrote:
Michiel Helvensteijn wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
auto data = std.file.readText(filename).chomp.split;
I love that too. Unfortunately, the way the water is moving, it looks
like we'll lose some or all of that.
That's not really true. Some of those no-parameter functions are just
meant
to be read-only properties instead of functions.
auto data = std.file.textFrom(filename).chomped.split;
So to allow omission of the parenthesis of these "read-only properties"
we do
@property string chomped (string x) { ... }
? I don't think Walter's syntax is capable of introducing "properties"
to these free methods, but the property attribute can. (However,
this may make
chomped = "abcd"
valid, which is not what we want.)
Why does ' chomped = "abcd" ' matter? It's a completely non-sensible
statement that does absolutely nothing.
