While we're lynching features, how bout' them omittable parens?

[Lionello Lunesu]

"Chad J" <chadjoan at __spam.is.bad__gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:gut0f2$jc0$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nevermind properties.  Any chance we can forbid the omittable
> parentheses, at least in the lhs of an assignment expression?
>
> In the more general case, any value type that gets modified but never
> read or copied elsewhere is probably either dead code, a bug, or a
> benchmark.  The latter is easy to fix by adding the necessary read/copy
> (return the value, pass it to a global or function, etc).  It'd be great
> if this kind of thing were a compile time error.
>
> Code like this shouldn't compile:
>
> struct S { int a = 0; }
> S foo() { S s; return s; }
>
> void main()
> {
>    foo.a++;
> }

This is not because of the omittable parens. Even with added parens that 
code should not compile!

L.