DIP23 Counter Proposal

[Chad Joan]

On 02/05/2013 09:45 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> ...
>
> The semantic rewrite stuff is something I don't feel strongly either
> way. It would be nice, but at the same time, it doesn't feel necessary
> to me. One can always simply avoid it by not using the operators on
> properties.
>

A core feature of properties is that variables can be migrated to them 
(and back) without breaking any of the caller's code.  Forbidding more 
than half of D's operators on them will definitely break this attribute.