Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:40:37 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> Maybe what scares Walter is a whole new syntax for properties.
>
> It doesn't scare me. It's trivial to add more syntax.
>
> It's just that D is complex enough - there needs to be some very good  
> reasons for adding more syntax that has apparently zero semantic  
> information that would be different from the usual function syntax.

OK, so you don't like the idea of adding dedicated properties.

What is *your* solution to forbidding abuses like this:

writefln = "hi";

???

-Steve