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

[Nathan M. Swan]

On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 08:35:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> This has turned into a monster. We've taken 2 or 3 wrong turns 
> somewhere.
>
> Perhaps we should revert to a simple set of rules.
>
> 1. Empty parens are optional. If there is an ambiguity with the 
> return value taking (), the () go on the return value.
>
> 2. the:
>    f = g
> rewrite to:
>    f(g)
> only happens if f is a function that only has overloads for () 
> and (one argument). No variadics.
>
> 3. Parens are required for calling delegates or function 
> pointers.
>
> 4. No more @property.

What about code that's always ignored @property?


     int delegate() _del;

     int delegate() getDelegate() {
         return _del;
     }

     auto del = getDelegate(); // does _del get called?

Just a thought,
NMS