new DIP5: Properties 2

[Bill Baxter]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Andrei
Alexandrescu<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> Sergey Gromov wrote:
>>
>> Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:02:16 -0400, Benji Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
>>>> news:h4lsuo$aut$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>>>
>>>>> For me, I get a breath of fresh air whenever I get to not write "()". I
>>>>> can't figure how some are missing it.
>>>>>
>>>> Every time I call a parameterless function in D, I curse under my breath
>>>> at how incredibly sloppy it is. Great, just what I need: Yet another thing
>>>> that forces me to make the completely unnecessary choice between using
>>>> something inconsistently or making up and sticking to a completely arbitrary
>>>> convention that can't be enforced. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. Especially
>>>> considering it's all for the sake of a "feature" that doesn't accomplish a
>>>> damn thing, doesn't solve any problem, not even a trivial one, doesn't do
>>>> anything but clutter the language.
>>>
>>> My thoughts exactly.
>>
>> +1
>
> Maybe we should vote on this too. BTW, seems like the last poll wasn't quite
> the expected landslide against the dictature :o).

I was on vacation the last two days so I didn't see any of these polls
till today.  But the poll I did see was like 8 to 5 in favor of a
change.  It doesn't really seem like a statistically significant
sample.  Seems like the "I don't care enough" vote is the vast
majority there.  Assuming D has significantly more than 13 users, that
is.  Or perhaps it's the "you guys have gone on about this for far too
long and and I now have no idea what this is about anymore" vote.

--bb