Is the -property compiler flag broken/bad idea?

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at 22:31:15 UTC, Namespace wrote:
> Sorry I don't get it. Are you for or against optional 
> parenthesis for function which are not marked with @property?

I'm for optional parens, but I'm also for @property, because the 
problems @property ought to be fixing are semantic, not syntax, 
and have no impact at all on non- at property functions.

The questions of @property and optional parens actually have 
nothing to do with each other, besides the unfortunate fact that 
they come up together in these threads and -property confuses the 
two. Optional parens is a feature of function call syntax. 
@property is about making a function look like a variable to the 
outside world, which means that function call syntax shouldn't 
apply to it anymore either way.