Calling delegate properties without parens

[Piotr Szturmaj]

Artur Skawina wrote:
> @property is for functions masquerading as data, i'm not sure extending it
> to pointers and delegates would be a good idea. What you are asking for is
> basically syntax sugar for:
>
>     struct CommonInputRange(E)
>     {
>         bool delegate() _empty;
>         @property auto empty() { return _empty(); };
>         @property auto empty(typeof(_empty) dg) { _empty = dg; };
>         E delegate() _front;
>         @property auto front() { return _front(); };
>         @property auto front(typeof(_front) dg) { _front = dg; };
>         void delegate() popFront;
>     }
 >

Yes, I was thinking about this, but it adds unnecessary overhead. I want 
to call delegates directly.

I think the whole idea is harmless because semantically, from the user 
perspective, delegates and function pointers works just like normal 
functions. So, why not?