Revised RFC on range design for D2

[Sergey Gromov]

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:19:01 -0500,
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> My point is that I agree with all concerns you are raising but I am not
> sure they warrant adding a language feature.

I hoped for some reason that these features could simplify the compiler.  
Now when I think about it I conclude that I was probably wrong.  
Explicit properties is definitely a feature, even though it seems easy 
to implement. Injectons could help if Walter were forced into supporting 
different scoping rules for unified call syntax, but if a.f(b) stays 
strictly a sugar for f(a,b) this feature helps nothing from a compiler 
standpoint.

So I'll probably agree that these features don't add much to the 
language, as D doesn't add much to C except safety, productivity, 
maintainability and claritiy.  The clarity/maintainability vs genericity 
is a tradeoff which is completely in Walter's hands.