Are properties actually all that good?

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On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 18:08:15 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> 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.

They had lot of information about concept of properties in 
general and how people do use them in other languages. There were 
plenty of different discussions, examples and disagreements - and 
I have read only 2 or 3 threads or all! :)