True Properties Poll

[Jesse Phillips]

Ary Borenszweig Wrote:

> Jesse Phillips wrote:
> > Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
> > 
> >> "Jesse Phillips" <jessekphillips+d at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> >> news:h4vfld$12m2$1 at digitalmars.com...
> >>> It seem no one is confident in their poll writing skills, so I'll take 
> >>> stab at it.
> >>>
> >>> This poll is related to D not providing "true" properties. Details and 
> >>> discussion can be found in DIP4: 
> >>> http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP4
> >>>
> >>> Below you will find a list of options. Please place a maximum of three 
> >>> votes starting with what you would prefer and then your alternatives. 
> >>> Reasoning can come after your vote.
> >>>
> >>>    1. Provide a special syntax/keyword to specify properties.
> >>>    2. Keep things as they are.
> >>>    3. Keep things as they are, resolving the += ... without involving new 
> >>> property syntax.
> >>>    4. Remove current "property" syntax.
> >>>    5. Prevent . on rvalues
> >>>
> >>> Extended Voting
> >>>
> >>>    A. #4 should happen with or without a new property syntax.
> >>>    B. Preventing . on rvalues should be done anyway.
> >>>
> >>> If I missed something, to bad, write your own poll. Please only respond if 
> >>> you are voting or commenting on another's vote. This allows top level 
> >>> posts to contain poll answers only.
> >> Ideal: Combine 1, 3, 4 and fix the problem with . on rvalues without doing 
> >> #5.
> >> Secondary: Anything in between "Ideal" and "Minimum That's Acceptable".
> >> Minimum That's Acceptable: Combine 3, 4 and  5.
> >>
> >> Joke: Let's make a poll on how a properties poll should be made ;)
> > 
> > I'm really not sure how 1 and 3 could be "combined," it would leave many of the issues people want 1 to fix.
> > 
> > I'm really not sure how 3 and 4 could be combined. One says "go away," the other "stay here."
> 
> Hi Jesse,
> 
> Your replies are not being correctly threaded in my Thunderbird, and it 
> makes analyzing the poll difficult. What's going on?

Sorry, I have no idea. Using the web interface? If this works I have a hypothesis though.

When making multiple replies with the web interface, first leave the group for another, then come back. But only if this is correctly threaded.