Fixing const arrays

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/13/11 2:25 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 14:02:51 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 12/13/11 10:32 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> On Monday, December 12, 2011 18:00:35 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> On 12/12/11 1:12 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>>>> On Monday, December 12, 2011 08:46:18 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>>> Insisting on the current property semantics was a sizeable mistake
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> this community, and I am sorry we gave into it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Aside from the fact that the behavior of -property isn't the
>>>>> default,
>>>>> what's the problem with @property?
>>>>
>>>> Other than it being completely useless, requiring more rote
>>>> memorization, and fomenting time-wasting discussion? None.
>>>
>>> So, you prefer the situation where any function with no arguments can be
>>> used as a getter and any function with a single argument can be used as
>>> a setter?
>> No. That would be a false choice.
>
> I'm not saying that those are the only choices, but you seem to think that the
> current situation is worse than what we had before, which I don't understand.
> The current situation looks all around better to me.

There's a phrase in Romanian that quite applies: "From the lake into the 
well".

Andrei