Accessors, byLine, input ranges

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:40:23 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> 
>> Michel Fortin wrote:
>>> On 2010-01-29 08:18:46 -0500, "Steven Schveighoffer" 
>>> <schveiguy at yahoo.com> said:
>>>
>>>> Hey, it's that dead horse again, let's beat it!
>>>>
>>>> Andrei and I and several others discussed this ad infinitum.  You 
>>>> will  never convince Andrei that his design is wrong :)
>>>  Andrei is the one who complained that it's difficult to know whether 
>>> 'byLine' is a property in the first place. I'm just explaining why it 
>>> is, and what should be done.
>>>  I'm starting to think Anrei likes ambiguous semantics.  :-)
>>
>> I'll tell you what I'd have liked: a landslide of responses to my 
>> question revealing my mistaken ways and clarifying without a shade of 
>> a doubt that byLine should be a @property. Or not. (I don't even care 
>> which.)
> 
> It's been mentioned before that tough decisions need to be made in many 
> areas of programming.  Deciding what is a property and what is not is no 
> different.

Except it has no reward associated with it.

Andrei