property syntax strawman

[Walter Bright]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> I think it's funny that for a week, Andrei has been arguing against
> throwing around new syntax to solve this problem, and that's exactly
> what you guys have come up with.

That's in the nature of debating in order to try to figure out the best 
solution. It's hard to think of all the ramifications, positives, 
negatives, and corner cases all at the same time.


> Really, how much more complicated
> would this make the parser, compared to adding a new attribute?

Neither of these proposals is a particular problem for the parser.