DIP23 draft: Fixing properties redux

[David Nadlinger]

On Monday, 4 February 2013 at 03:13:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 2/3/13 9:58 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> My point is precisely that. I think there are much simpler 
>> solutions
>> than adding some magic properties to a pair of parentheses in 
>> the right
>> position, even if it might look like a convenient hack.
>
> I don't think it's a hack at all. Think it over, […]

I've done that. What about *you* thinking it over? :P

> and compare it with the language semantics even today.

I thought we agreed that today's semantics are hopelessly broken. 
Actually, we might already have some of the &a vs. &(a) stuff, I 
remember Kenji opening a pull request about that at some point, 
but don't know if it went in OTOH.

David