property syntax strawman

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> I don't think this means we should take this one exception to invalidate 
> the whole idea of separating function from property, but maybe there could 
> be ways to annotate such functions as callable both ways.  I'm sure the 
> number of functions that have this property is few such that the pain of 
> annotating "call this both ways" is minimial.  Or else, allow defining a 
> property and a function with the same name (*gulp*).

Or just decree "split is a property" and be done with it.

> One thing is for certain -- I'd rather have to deal with this quandry as 
> an author of code than deal with the ambiguity of the current design as a 
> user of code.

Amen to that!