D's greatest mistakes

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Walter Bright wrote:
> Robert Jacques wrote:
>> D's omissible parenthesis strike me as being half-way between C#'s
>> properties and Eiffel's Uniform Access Principle. Given Eiffel's
>> influence on D, was there a reason why you didn't implement the
>> uniform access principal instead of omissible parenthesis?
>
> I haven't studied Eiffel that much,

No, not at all! Yet "contract programming" is on the D's brochure! You 
put something in D that you hadn't investigated? Um, you just dreamt that 
up?