property syntax strawman

[Leandro Lucarella]

Andrei Alexandrescu, el  2 de agosto a las 11:02 me escribiste:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> >I think it's funny that for a week, Andrei has been arguing against
> >throwing around new syntax to solve this problem, and that's exactly
> >what you guys have come up with.  Really, how much more complicated
> >would this make the parser, compared to adding a new attribute?
> 
> We couldn't find a good solution without adding new syntax, so this is now on the table. Adding syntax or keywords is the next thing to look at. I'd still be 
> unsatisfied if:
> 
> (a) there would be significant syntactic noise to defining a read-only property
> 
> (b) we had to add a keyword

Againg, what about DIP6?

b) won' happen, even more, D could get rid of a *lot* of keywords if it
   works out.

a) this not that bad, right?

   @property bool empty() { return _len == 0; }

   (we can use @prop if @property is too long)

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