Regarding the proposed Binray Literals Deprecation

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 06:42:00PM +0000, Daniel N via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 September 2022 at 18:38:21 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> > 
> > On 15/09/2022 6:35 AM, Daniel N wrote:
> > > Because D is multiparadigm, everyone has their own list. I love
> > > and use all of those features. Currently I can only think of 1
> > > feature I don't use, but others use it so it doesn't matter.
> > 
> > By any chance would it happen to be @property?
> 
> OK, you got me, lol.

On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 06:44:03AM +1200, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I was going to post a poll on people who actually use its semantics
> last night.
> 
> I am pretty sure if we replaced it with a UDA there would be very
> limited breakage.

At one time I used to studiously write @property on my range
methods, because isInputRange/isForwardRange at one point required it.
But since then, somebody has changed Phobos to relax this requirement,
so nowadays I don't bother with @property anymore. Except maybe
occasionally for self-documentation purposes, but even that is falling
out of use.

I *probably* wouldn't miss @property if it was removed today (as long
as it doesn't break older code).


T

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