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

[anonymous]

On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 10:30:41 UTC, sclytrack wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 18:38:00 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
> wrote:
>> Thinking about it, this isn't quite a full circle. It does 
>> improve a bit.
>>
>> If we aren't going dip21, how about:
>>
>> ===
>>
>> Everything stays the way it is now, except:
>>
>> * if a @property is called with parens, they always apply to 
>> the return value
>>
>> * -property hopefully dies.
>>
>> ===
>
> If this means keeping the writeln = ""; then vote++. I've got 
> no issues
> with the property syntax for methods. I actually want them. Why 
> should properties only get the shorter syntax?
>
>
>

Also since you can't overload @property opDispatch and opDispatch 
at the same
time without knowing all the property names or method names at 
compile time you
can use the opDispatch for everything if the methods have a 
property like syntax.