@property - take it behind the woodshed and shoot it?

[mist]

On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 21:00:49 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> Being able to swap out a public variable with a function 
> without having to
> change any code using it is arguably the primary reasons that 
> property
> functions exist in the first place. ...

Yes, but not just any function. Side-effect free function that 
controls access to data. And Adam suggested it is fine to use 
properties to add side-effects to data assignments which is 
drastically different. I agree with all your words so it is 
probably just misunderstanding.