Make dur a property?

Brad Anderson eco at gnuk.net
Wed Jan 23 12:26:35 PST 2013


On Wednesday, 23 January 2013 at 18:02:05 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 18:03:19 monarch_dodra wrote:
>> So I thought I'd discuss: Would there be a reason to not make 
>> dur
>> a property? This should impact no-one, but make ufcs usage that
>> much more convenient. Can I get the go-ahead to make and 
>> document
>> the change?
>
> No. It's not conceptually a property, so it shouldn't be marked 
> with
> @property. It's a factory function.
>

I agree. It's important we don't conflate properties with 
parentheses-less calling.  They are two separate things.

I want to be able to call without parentheses but we shouldn't 
abuse @property to accomplish it.

BA


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