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

[TommiT]

On Sunday, 27 January 2013 at 13:42:33 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> If we require clever IDE to distinguish visually something as 
> basic as data semantics and callable semantics it is an 
> indicator language design is screwed.

Why is it an indicator of that?

> I may use an IDE help when I need to learn architecture level 
> connections in new project, but at scope level semantics for 
> reader should be perfectly clear and unambiguous even if opened 
> in notepad.

Notepad opens text files. There is nothing that says that the 
source files of X programming language must be text files. It's 
just a convention, not a law or a real limitation in designing 
languages. Therefore you can't assume that an X source file can 
be opened and read with notepad. Someone might design a language 
that wouldn't rely on those symbols that just happen to be found 
on keyboards, but instead, relied more on text formatting and 
colors.