scope for array parameters

[Timon Gehr]

On 09/05/2012 02:10 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 05, 2012 01:13:00 ixid wrote:
>> What does -property supposedly solve?
>
> It's supposed to make it so that property functions are used as variables and
> non-property functions are used as functions, since the point of property
> functions is to emulate variables. It's very buggy at the moment though, so it
> doesn't really enforce everything that it's supposed to enforce. IIRC, it only
> enforces that non-property functions are called with parens and not that
> property functions are called without them.
>
>> It creates a horrid mess of
>> brackets that ruin the elegance of UFCS code.
>
> You mean parens? Regardless, it means that you using functions as if there
> were variables, which I'm very much against. They're functions and should be
> called as such. But not everyone agrees.
>
> I think that it's pretty much a guarantee that we're eventually going to end
> up with @property functions having to be called without parens (I don't think
> that very many people disagree on that). The bigger question is whether we're
> going to follow TDPL and also make it so that non-property functions must be
> called with them (as -property currently checks for).

TDPL does not prescribe this.

> The number of parens
> required with UFCS (particularly with functions requiring template arguments)
> is one of the reasons that some people give that they think that non-property
> functions shouldn't be forced to be called with parens.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>