new DIP5: Properties 2

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Andrei
> Alexandrescu<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>> Sergey Gromov wrote:
>>> Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:02:16 -0400, Benji Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>>> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
>>>>> news:h4lsuo$aut$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>>>> For me, I get a breath of fresh air whenever I get to not write "()". I
>>>>>> can't figure how some are missing it.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Every time I call a parameterless function in D, I curse under my breath
>>>>> at how incredibly sloppy it is. Great, just what I need: Yet another thing
>>>>> that forces me to make the completely unnecessary choice between using
>>>>> something inconsistently or making up and sticking to a completely arbitrary
>>>>> convention that can't be enforced. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. Especially
>>>>> considering it's all for the sake of a "feature" that doesn't accomplish a
>>>>> damn thing, doesn't solve any problem, not even a trivial one, doesn't do
>>>>> anything but clutter the language.
>>>> My thoughts exactly.
>>> +1
>> Maybe we should vote on this too. BTW, seems like the last poll wasn't quite
>> the expected landslide against the dictature :o).
> 
> I was on vacation the last two days so I didn't see any of these polls
> till today.  But the poll I did see was like 8 to 5 in favor of a
> change.  It doesn't really seem like a statistically significant
> sample.  Seems like the "I don't care enough" vote is the vast
> majority there.  Assuming D has significantly more than 13 users, that
> is.  Or perhaps it's the "you guys have gone on about this for far too
> long and and I now have no idea what this is about anymore" vote.

I've seen a vote in which more than 50 voted. Still doesn't say anything 
statistically significant, but it's more than a handful.

Andrei