@property

[Pelle]

On 06/24/2010 10:25 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Pelle wrote:
>
>> As heard around these parts, a lot of people want property-style
>> function calls to require the function to be declared with @property,
>> like this:
>>
>> @property foo(); //getter
>> @property foo(int); //setter
>>
>> foo; //getter
>> foo = 13; //setter
>>
>> While this seems quite reasonable, in practice I and others feel this
>> leads to confusion, especially the getter part. Mostly when the getter
>> has no setter counterpart. D also lets us call no-argument functions
>> without parentheses today, so for this to happen a lot of code needs to
>> change.
>>
>> My suggestion is as follows; require @property for single-argument
>> setters *only*. Make the silly writeln = 13; go away, but keep the "a b
>> c".split;. This way, there can be no confusion about @property, and most
>> code will go unchanged.
>>
>> I hope this was not too late a suggestion. :)
>
> I thought that the whole point of @property was that it enabled the
> property-style function calls with no parens and that functions not labeled
> with @property had to be called with parens.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

Also to disable writeln = 13;

But I want to keep paren-less calls and remove silly call-as-assignment, 
except for when marked as to make sense.