properties

[Sergey Gromov]

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:30:00 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

>>>> The presence or absence of parens is a hard-coded accepted meaning of 
>>>> field vs. function.
>>>
>>> I understand how some people want to derive meaning from obj.foo() 
>>> versus obj.foo. I think they shouldn't in D. I mean D has had for 
>>> years the behavior that you could drop the trailing empty parentheses.
>> 
>> And for years, there have been complaints about it.  This will 
>> continuously be a thorn in the side of D adoption until it is resolved.
> 
> Again, most complaints have been directed towards writeln = 5. I think 
> that's the major problem to be resolved.

I think it is mentioned more often because you tend to agree with it.
There are many more as valid arguments which you discard or ignore,
mainly maintainability.