Are properties actually all that good?

[Jesse Phillips]

On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 17:27:02 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 17:15:53 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> Use properties. You'll find it more common in other D code. 
>> Whether you use a field or a method is up to you, I suspect 
>> using method will be more common.
>
> As multiple property threads have shown this is a _very_ 
> varying preference among D coders. It it is mostly true for 
> Phobos but out of it - no common guideline.

I disagree, those discussions were about @property, they had very 
little to do with accessor methods (getX setY). Most of the 
discussion was on how to add properties into the language where 
disagreement was around if optional parens were solving the 
problem.