[~OT] Finally, a clear, concise D spec!

[language_fan]

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:58:32 -0400, Jarrett Billingsley thusly wrote:

> (Of course I find the whole property
> syntax used for type introspection a bit silly, a half-thought-out
> feature that's hard to parse, not easily extensible, and which doesn't
> fit syntactically with the rest of the metaprogramming facilities.)

Maybe it requires a better grasp of the big picture to fully understand 
the nuances involved? After all, a feature like object.stringof is much 
easier to type than the other alternative __traits
(get_string_presentation_of, object)