Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Walter Bright]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> I don't think properties should be necessarily pure anyways.  How do you 
> have a pure setter?  It's more of a convention that a property getter 
> should not change the state of the containing entity, a pretty much 
> non-enforcable convention.

That's my problem with properties as a distinct syntax - they don't have 
distinct uses or behaviors.