On 06/24/2010 10:43 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Other than legacy, code I see _0_ benefit to allowing non-property functions
to be called as if they were properties. They aren't properties and
shouldn't be treated that way. Now, a programmer is free to use @property as
they please in the code and can abuse it just like any other part of the
language, but the whole point of being able to call functions without parens
is in order to have property syntax for properties. I, for one, do _not_
think that non-property functions should be able to be called as if they
were properties.
- Jonathan M Davis
The problem lies within the definition of what a property is and is not,
as well as can and cannot be.
A benefit to the current situation is that fewer parentheses means less
line noise, and prettier code.
