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

[Adam Wilson]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:00:06 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 1/24/13 7:36 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> Also non-logical special case rules like this make the language harder
>> to learn, therefore harder to evangelize.
>
> Definitely. But it shouldn't be forgotten that syntactic warts are also  
> a liability.
>
> Andrei
>
>

I would argue that given how common they already are, cost of the wart is  
far smaller than the benefit of not having the unique-to-D special case  
that makes the language that much harder to learn.

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Adam Wilson
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