DIP23 draft: Fixing properties redux

[Timon Gehr]

On 02/04/2013 04:13 AM, 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.

It is a horrible hack. Why is this not obvious?

> Think it over, and compare it with the language semantics even today.
>

I am intimately familiar with today's language semantics as I am writing 
a D compiler front end. Please be more explicit.