byKey and byValue: properties or methods?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/19/12 11:29 AM, torhu wrote:
> The reason would be that if it looks like field access, it should behave
> like that.

The difficulty is in knowing where to stop. The only things that behaves 
exactly like a field access is a field access. This is a known issue in 
C++, e.g. smart pointers "are smart but aren't pointers".

Andrei