Revised RFC on range design for D2

[KennyTM~]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Steven Schveighoffer
> <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> There is no ambiguity either case. You evaluate Stdout.newline. The
>>> evaluation yields a value of some type. Then you evaluate formatln against
>>> that value.
>> OK, then tell me what this does:
>>
>> x.y.z();
>>
>> Is y a property/field of x or a function call with no args?  I see a benefit
>> to being able to understand a line of code without requiring lots of extra
>> context.  I have to do less lookups of the source of a function or property.
> 
> The problem with this argument is that unless you disallow properties
> altogether, you still won't know whether y is actually a field or a
> call to a property method without looking it up.
> 
> --bb

I think the distinction of with and without () is pretty stylistic, 
because the same argument can even be applied to operator overloading 
(does a=b means pointing the variable a to b, or calling a.opAssign(b)?)

For me, I would use () if the function do modify the object itself.