@property needed or not needed?

[Rob T]

On Tuesday, 4 December 2012 at 21:58:49 UTC, Regan Heath wrote:
> Exact costs, yes.  But syntactic properties can, and have 
> historically also given a good indication of costs and this is 
> useful.  Removing that, is less than useful and potentially 
> surprising.
>
> Compare that to what you gain from this change.. nothing useful 
> that I can see.
>
> Making variable assignments and function calls look the same 
> buys you nothing, you're trying to make apples and oranges look 
> like oranges and hide all the nice, useful, detail and 
> distinction you get from having both assignments (oranges) and 
> function calls (apples) and all that they imply.
>
> R

You can make functions and vars look different through a naming 
convention, and do even more if you choose. The enforcement of 
the empty () as essentially an enforced naming convention.

--rt