Revised RFC on range design for D2

[Christopher Wright]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ... except these extras do have the same issue that plain property
>> assignment does.  They would open up a new class of things that are
>> valid code but don't behave as expected.  writefln += 5.
>>
> 
> Doh, obviously writefln is a bad example there.  Imagine a function
> that takes an int, tries to do something that many times, then returns
> an int indicating how many times it actually managed to do it.
> 
> --bb

How about this? Start trusting programmers not to do nonsensical things. 
With the possible exception of downs, whose code is delightfully opaque 
while being wonderfully readable.