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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/24/13 9:54 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
> 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.

Again, the question needs asking: is it a given that we need to allow 
optional parentheses? Otherwise we'll keep on rehashing this over and 
over again.

Andrei