DIP23 Counter Proposal

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/7/13 4:55 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Thursday, February 07, 2013 16:12:34 Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:25:57 -0500, Jonathan M Davis<jmdavisProg at gmx.com>
>>
>> wrote:
>>> struct S
>>> {
>>>
>>> @property int i;
>>>
>>> }
>>
>> struct S
>> {
>> mixin(boilerplateProperty("i"));
>> }
>>
>> I don't see this as a difficult problem to solve.
>
> Except that mixins are generally unacceptable in APIs, because they don't end
> up in the documentation. That means that this works only if you don't care
> about documentation. So, it's almost useless. Putting @property on there also
> looks better but isn't that big a deal. However, the lack of documentation
> _is_ a big deal.

Well there's the version(DDoc) ... etc. possibility.

Andrei