Why I'm Excited about D

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 4/9/15 10:31 AM, Idan Arye wrote:
> On Thursday, 9 April 2015 at 01:28:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 4/8/15 4:15 PM, Idan Arye wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 8 April 2015 at 16:47:10 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> On 4/8/15 2:24 AM, Idan Arye wrote:
>>>>> At the very least, put () after the writelne:
>>>>
>>>> No. -- Andrei
>>>
>>> Why not? The property syntax's purpose is to create... well...
>>> properties. Give you the illusion that you are reading and writing
>>> member fields when you are actually calling functions.
>>
>> It seems to be a difference without a distinction. One day I got tired
>> of writing r.empty and r.front but r.popFront(). Furthermore I got
>> tired to spend time thinking where I should insert parens vs. where I
>> shouldn't. So I dropped parens from that. And then from other places.
>> Apparently I didn't get struck by lightning where I stood.
>>
>> Andrei
>
> This is not about being struck by lightning. This is about being struck
> by the next developer who has to read your code.

Apparently they didn't either. -- Andrei