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

[Sean Kelly]

On Jan 24, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Nathan M. Swan <nathanmswan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

I think a clarification of rule 1 is that parens will be right-associative.  So in your example, _del would be called.