new DIP5: Properties 2

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Fri Jul 31 09:13:55 PDT 2009


Sergey Gromov wrote:
> Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:02:16 -0400, Benji Smith wrote:
> 
>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
>>> news:h4lsuo$aut$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>> For me, I get a breath of fresh air whenever I get to not write "()". I 
>>>> can't figure how some are missing it.
>>>>
>>> Every time I call a parameterless function in D, I curse under my breath at 
>>> how incredibly sloppy it is. Great, just what I need: Yet another thing that 
>>> forces me to make the completely unnecessary choice between using something 
>>> inconsistently or making up and sticking to a completely arbitrary 
>>> convention that can't be enforced. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. Especially 
>>> considering it's all for the sake of a "feature" that doesn't accomplish a 
>>> damn thing, doesn't solve any problem, not even a trivial one, doesn't do 
>>> anything but clutter the language. 
>> My thoughts exactly.
> 
> +1

Maybe we should vote on this too. BTW, seems like the last poll wasn't 
quite the expected landslide against the dictature :o).

Andrei



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