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

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jesse Phillips" <jessekphillips at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Mon, 18 May 2009 21:53:06 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>> I still want to get rid of omittable parens (and function-call-as-a-lhs)
>> anyway. They're a horrible substitute for a real property syntax.
>
> I don't like C# properties, IMO it is pointless overhead. I agree you can
> misuse the omittable parentheses, but what is a "real" property syntax?
> Seems to me both D and C# provide the same syntax they are just set up
> differently.

D leaves the function/property distinction up to the caller, which is 
rediculous because in most cases only one or the other actually makes sense. 
C# places the responsilibily for that function-syntax/property-syntax choice 
on the callee instead, where it belongs.

D's approach is like saying "You can index an array with 'myArray[5]' *or* 
'myArray+5', and you can add two numbers with 'myInt+5' *or* 'myInt[5]'. 
Either way, it's your choice!!". It's a completely useless form of 
flexibility and comes at the cost of encouraging confusion.