Omittable parens is an evil

[Bruno Medeiros]

Tomasz Sowiñski wrote:
> Mike Wrote:
> 
>> For me it's mostly that there's a clear _VISUAL_ distinction between "this  
>> does something" (parens) and "this is data" (no parens); and in D there's  
>> no difference in this one (arbitrary) edge case. It's easy to "eyeball  
>> scan" code using parens pairs as visual anchors.
>>
> 
> I agree. When coding, at first, I was glad to be able to snip the parens (makes code look cleaner), but then I came to the same conclusion - the illusory cleanness of code strikes back in the form of trouble with telling "something" and "do something" apart.
> 
> C# has proper properties. Why mess with the classic?
> 
> Tomek

I agree. In the few D code I've written, I've already run into several 
bouts with that problem. I'm sure it looked cool at first ("hey, here's 
a simple trick that allows one to implement properties cleanly"), but 
while it implements properties "cleanly", it messes up function 
invocation and introspection *a lot*... :(

I think the ommitable parenthesis syntax should be removed, and a proper 
syntax for properties created (and I don't mind that the first is done 
before the second is).

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Bruno Medeiros - Software Developer, MSc. in CS/E graduate
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