DIP4: Properties

[Daniel Keep]

Lutger wrote:
> I do think this proposal is better than what we have since it meets the 
> major requirements, but have one minor point of critique:
> 
> Offering a mixin is not a good enough argument to address the DRY 
> shortcoming. While it may be acceptable in many cases, it is ugly and messes 
> with reporting of errors, debugging, code coverage and profiling.

Very true.  We really need to come up with a way to fix this.  That
said, I sometimes think that string mixins will NEVER get fixed unless
Walter has a strong impetus to do so: i.e., people are using them and
hurting.

But that's another DIP for another day.  :P