Properties no longer work?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"BCS" <BCS at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
news:eaarq2$1h47$1 at digitaldaemon.com...

> It gets worse. If foo is overloaded, then DMD silently grabs the lexically 
> first version and uses it. This is in direct contradiction of the idea 
> that lexical order of functions/classes/etc. should not effect semantics. 
> (I seem to recall that this is one of the goals of D, but I can't find the 
> reference).

That is ugly.  In fact, I even came up with a solution for it in my 
scripting language (before it was dynamically typed): an "overload 
resolution expression."

It goes like this:

void foo(int x)
{

}

void foo(float x)
{

}

&foo // ambiguous
&foo.(int) // foo(int) overload
&foo.(float) // foo(float) overload

The dot is in there so that the parser doesn't interpret it as a function 
call.  And as far as I know, there is no other syntax that allows the ".(" 
sequence.