property syntax strawman

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Walter Bright<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
> 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.

What about my other points?  Do you have a response?  I almost had
trouble believing this proposal wasn't a joke, given how contrived and
unintuitive it is.  Shouldn't that be an important consideration?