Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> Maybe what scares Walter is a whole new syntax for properties. If at
>> least you could say which functions are properties and which are not,
>> that would be a small change and it'll make it possible for other
>> things. Something like:
>>
>> int property foo(); // getter
>> int property foo(int value); // setter
> 
> My proposal requires no new keywords and no new syntax:
> 
> int getfoo(); // getter
> int setfoo(int); // setter

This is pretty clean, and in keep with the opXxx approach. Actually how 
about defining property foo by defining opGet_foo and opSet_foo.

Andrei