I've proposed in the past that functions which have no arguments and return
void could be callable without parentheses, as they cannot be mistaken for
properties.
I think we all agree that non-@property functions which take a single parameter
should not be callable in property form.
Functions that are not properties which return a value should be required to
have parentheses to distinguish them from properties.
The above is all consistent with TDPL as far as I know.
-Steve
>________________________________
>From: David Simcha <[email protected]>
>To: Discuss the phobos library for D <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 10:09 AM
>Subject: Re: [phobos] Time to get ready for the next release
>
>
>As I've said before, we really need to decide whether @property has loose or
>strict semantics. Loose semantics means that non-@property functions would
>still be callable without (), etc but @property functions wouldn't be allowed
>to have ()s. Frankly, I hate @property, want to to have as little effect as
>possible, like the flexibility of being able to call the same function both
>ways, and would have a lot of code break if this were taken away, so my vote
>is loose semantics.
>
>
>On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Michel Fortin <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>Le 2011-04-21 à 6:48, Torarin a écrit :
>>
>>
>>> Dmd has a bug that causes the @property attribute to be disregarded in
>>> functions that return auto.
>>
>>Indeed. I think I have a fix for that in the "@property" branch of my DMD
>>fork on github. Perhaps I should make a pull request from that.
>>
>>Actually, I could make a pull request for the entire "@property" branch, it
>>shouldn't impact things much as enforcement of @property is only done if you
>>add the command line switch -property. Would that make sense?
>>
>>
>>--
>>Michel Fortin
>>[email protected]
>>http://michelf.com/
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