Property discussion wrap-up

[TommiT]

On Wednesday, 30 January 2013 at 21:58:53 UTC, Zach the Mystic 
wrote:
> Also, because the "namespace_thingy"s have so much in common 
> with structs, I think it would be misleading to call them 
> something else.

The problem of using empty struct variables is that they take up 
memory. They have to, because you can make a pointer to a 
variable and then you can dereference that variable. There has to 
be at least a byte of memory to dereference.

So, really, the only zero-overhead way to do this is to introduce 
a new keyword that creates something that you can't take the 
address of, because it kind of doesn't exist (like a namespace). 
It exists only in the sense that it can be used to tell the 
compiler which operators and functions to call. That's what my 
namespace_thingy is.