D's greatest mistakes

[Robert Jacques]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:11:32 -0500, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> 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.

I thought omissible parenthesis were a late addition to the language (cira  
2005/2006)