property syntax strawman

[Chad J]

Chad J wrote:
> 
> If you were willing to implement attribute syntax, then you could
> probably please almost everyone (I hope).  The omissible parentheses
> could be left in.   It would be possible to create these entities that
> are both functions and properties at the same time.  They wouldn't be
> hazardous anymore.  @property could be used to mark a strict property
> declaration.  Such a declaration would forbid being called with
> parentheses, and thus allow better enforcement of API conventions,
> better analysis by 3rd party tools and generative code, and allow
> delegates to be returned from properties.  Fields could be migrated to
> properties or strict @properties with very little API breakage, while
> only strict @properties could be migrated to fields with (maybe) zero
> API breakage.

I should clarify that this paragraph assumes the aforementioned
expression rewriting were implemented.