Reddit: why aren't people using D?

[Rainer Deyke]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> I can't be nice about this: Any programmer who has *any* aggrivation 
> learning any even remotely sane property syntax is an idiot, period. They'd 
> have to be incompetent to not be able to look at an example like this:
> 
> // Fine, I'll throw DRY away:
> int _width;
> int width
> {
>     get { return _width; }
>     set(v) { _width = v; }
> }
> 
> And immediately know exactly how the poroperty syntax works.

I don't know exactly how this is supposed to work.  The basic idea is
obvious, but:
  - How does it interact with inheritance?  Can I override properties?
Can I partially override properties (setter but not getter)?
  - Can I write a setter that accepts another type?
  - Can I write a templated setter that accepts *all* types?  If so, how?
  - Can I create a delegate from a setter/getter?  If so, how?
  - I assume that getters/setters can have individual access specifiers
(i.e. private/protected/public), but is that really the case?

Dedicated property syntax isn't hard to learn, but it's not as obvious
as you make it our to be.  Note that none of these issues exist with
opGet_foo, which follows the same rules as all functions.


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