@property needed or not needed?

[Mike Parker]

On Monday, 19 November 2012 at 06:02:06 UTC, Rob T wrote:

>
> I also see that there's a compiler option "-property" that 
> currently is not recognized, but is supposed to "enforce use of 
> @property on property functions".
>
> So what's up with @property? Is it being depreciated for being 
> redundant, or will it later be strictly enforced, or is it to 
> be optionally enforced through a compiler switch?
>

I don't recall seeing anything about @property being deprecated. 
The intention of the -property switch is to, IIRC, ease the 
transition to the ultimate full-time enforcement of the @property 
attribute. Enforcement is off by default. At some point, it will 
be turned on by default at which point the -property switch will 
no longer be necessary. I usually compile with -property and 
AFAIK it is functioning as intended. I've gotten errors in the 
past when it was enabled.