D's greatest mistakes
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Nov 30 21:41:56 PST 2010
Robert Jacques wrote:
> 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)
Maybe, I don't remember.
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