properties

[John C]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Again, most complaints have been directed towards writeln = 5. I think 
> that's the major problem to be resolved.
> 

Here's another, one that's pretty common:

class Person {

   private string name_;

   string name() {
     return name_;
   }

}

string[] split(string s, char separator) {
   ...
}

auto p = getPerson();
auto names = p.name.split(' '); // Doesn't compile - you need to do 
p.name().split(' ');