Property rewriting; I feel it's important. Is there still time?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 03/10/2010 04:38 AM, retard wrote:
> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:05:03 +0000, retard wrote:
>
>> This is so unbelievable. I knew the property stuff was being redesigned
>> since there was so much talk in the ng some time ago. But even now, why
>> on earth doesn't it work like it should. Is it so hard to copy/steal the
>> good ideas from the better languages. Guess how C#/Scala solved this - I
>> bet having a PhD helps getting things right the first time..
>>
>
> Heh, after noticing the thread name "D hates to be dynamic linked" I
> should have probably renamed this thread with a funnier name such as "D
> stubbornly refuses to learn from mistakes and follow the principles of
> good language design".
>
> It took C# 4 years to get properties right. That period also included
> finishing a complete language specification document, totalling almost
> 500 pages. The property feature wasn't present in Pizza (2002), but Scala
> (2004 ->) had it. It was taken D 11 years to fail again and again
> miserably.

I am having difficulty understanding what you are trying to convey.

Andrei