Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Bill Baxter]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Steven
Schveighoffer<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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";
>
> ???
>

I think his suggestion was the Java-style approach -- special naming
convention for get/set functions:

int opGet_foo() { return foo_; }
void opSet_foo(int foo) { foo_ = foo; }
private:
int foo_;

--bb