Proposal: Package aliases

[Bill Baxter]

Robert Fraser wrote:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>> It's like getters/setters, you can say: in Java I never need to write my
>> getters and setters because the IDE do it for me. In D you don't have to
>> write them either, and for that, you don't have to rely on an IDE and you
>> have shorter, cleaner code which is easier to read and maintain.
> 
> Err.... you don't? The D convention is to use the property syntax, but 
> you still need to write the methods.

In theory, you don't have to because you can just use public members 
when you start out.  Property syntax gives you a way to hide those 
members later on if necessary.

In theory only, though, because properties and data members don't behave 
exactly the same (can't use a property method as an lvalue; can't make 
delegate of data member with &).  To be *truly* future-proof you still 
need to start out with your getters and setters, just like in C++/Java.

--bb