D's greatest mistakes

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Nov 30 20:11:32 PST 2010


Robert Jacques wrote:
> D's omissible parenthesis strike me as being half-way between C#'s 
> properties and Eiffel's Uniform Access Principle. Given Eiffel's 
> influence on D, was there a reason why you didn't implement the uniform 
> access principal instead of omissible parenthesis?

I haven't studied Eiffel that much, and remember that D came out at the same 
time as C#, not after it.


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