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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