Property discussion wrap-up

[deadalnix]

On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 13:49:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> But this gets back to faith-based programming. I associate 
> "reasoning" with much more rigorous processes.
>

It is not faith, it is the abstraction that is presented to you. 
Presenting abstraction is one of the most important task when 
doing programming. As I explained already, the compiler does teh 
exact same thing when implementing TLS.

>> That is why having .length of array as a property that 
>> reallocates is so
>> horrible.
>
> Well it's worked hasn't it.
>

You can't really argue that phobos is crowded with @property for 
no benefice when you see that.

Everything has been made a property even when it doesn't make any 
sense.