property syntax strawman

[Robert Jacques]

On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:02:22 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> 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.  Really, how much more complicated
>> would this make the parser, compared to adding a new attribute?
>
> We couldn't find a good solution without adding new syntax, so this is  
> now on the table. Adding syntax or keywords is the next thing to look  
> at. I'd still be unsatisfied if:
>
> (a) there would be significant syntactic noise to defining a read-only  
> property
>
> (b) we had to add a keyword
>
>
> Andrei

I'd also still like to be able to do stuff like this:

auto data = std.file.readText(filename).chomp.split;