YAPP - reminder

[Jeremie Pelletier]

aarti_pl Wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> This is just another reminder about ongoing voting about properties:
> 
> http://www.igsoft.net/dpolls/index.php
> 
> Current results:
> 
> * about 68% of responders want to have special syntax for properties
> * from people wanting new syntax most people want C# syntax (26 votes) 
> and then almost ex-aequo syntax with "property" keyword (25 votes)
> * seems that only one person from 88 voters like opGet_<property> syntax
> * quite a big group of responders (~32%) wants just fix problems in 
> existing property syntax
> * 60% of people (but only 75 voters) want to remove possibility to omit 
> parentheses from function call.
> 
> 
> ----
> Comments:
> 
> I think that these results are already quite representative, but poll 
> should be open till tomorrow. So there is still chance to vote.
> 
> 
> There appeared other proposals from time where poll was created. If you 
> like something other than options in poll, then I think you should vote 
> for "I want other syntax than above" option.
> 
> 
> Personally I don't like so much C# syntax because of magic "value" 
> variable, which refers to property value used in setter. There is 
> another place in D where such a magic values appears: it is in variadic 
> parameters functions. IMHO such a magic parameters could stay if there 
> would be general syntax for getting compile time/runtime parameters of 
> functions. In such a case there would be no more "magic" in language but 
> rather clear rules how to read function parameter values using reflections.
> 
> Currently my choice would be something like proposal in DIP6 
> (attributes). Using '@' at the beginning of attributes could be also 
> used in another place: in imports it could be used to escape keywords, 
> so that following would be possible:
> --
> import std. at traits; //then we could remove underscores from __traits
> import d. at for.masses;
> --
> It's most general way of annotating source code with special compiler 
> understandable meanings. Looking at result of poll & also seeing many NG 
> posts I believe that most of D community prefers generality over 
> one-time hackish solutions. And that's something to think about it... :-)
> 
> 
> It seems that almost no one likes "ugly" functions with underscores and 
> messing operator names with property names. I am not so surprised about 
> underscores at all: it was common practice in C++, but it's not so 
> common in other modern languages. But then why in D we have so many of 
> them although no one really likes it (__traits, foreach_reverse, 
> _argptr, _arguments)?
> 
> 
> And finally: why polls are not integral part of digitalmars web page? It 
> took me only one hour to set up this poll...
> 
> 
> BR
> Marcin Kuszczak
> (aarti_pl)

Oops, I got the only one "keep things as they are now" vote haha.
I meant to vote for the one with resolved +=.

Took you an hour to set it up? Did you have to code it from scratch?