@property needed or not needed?

[monarch_dodra]

On Tuesday, 20 November 2012 at 18:06:22 UTC, Rob T wrote:
> Here's another way to test if the idea is sound, by asking a 
> few questions:

After thinking about it a bit more, I think there may be two 
conflicting notions:

a) The use of optional parenthesis.
b) The @property switch, which allows a function to emulate an 
attribute, namelly, allow writting "bla = a.foo;" or "a.foo = 
5;", when "foo" isn't actually an attribute of a.

I *could* see parenthesis being optional, but I'll never accept 
"a.foo = 5" calling "a.foo(5)" if "foo" isn't attribute qualified.