DIP23 draft: Fixing properties redux

[David Nadlinger]

On Monday, 4 February 2013 at 02:18:08 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Monday, 4 February 2013 at 01:30:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> I think most, if not all, detailed rules derive from these.
>
> One does not, the strange special case for taking the address 
> of a property.
>
> I'd REALLY urge you to explore alternative solutions, such as 
> the one proposed by Andrej, before introducing an abomination 
> like distinguishing between "&a" and "&(a)".
>
> There is no way su<ch strange behavior could be explained in a 
> way that is coherent with the rest of the language.

As another data point, Walter wrote a while ago himself: »I'm 
just arguing against the e and (e) solution as (perhaps) causing 
more ambiguity problems«.

David