D's "accessors" are like abusing operator overloads

[Michel Fortin]

On 2009-03-27 04:45:26 -0400, "Simen Kjaeraas" <simen.kjaras at gmail.com> said:

> I feel the problem here is that you can access a type's static members
> through an instance of it, not so much the property syntax.
> 
> One could argue that auto foo = TimeSpan.seconds = 30; looks weird, but
> writing weird code is in no way dependent on property syntax.

Perhaps static being accessible from the instance is a problem, but you 
can easily work around the problem by making the function's name 
clearer by adding a verb. If you had:

	auto foo = TimeSpan.createFromSeconds = 30;

it'd still look strange, sure, but the intent would still be pretty 
clear. So in short functions that perform an action should have a verb.

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