The problem with @properties in D

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:42:48 -0500, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  
wrote:

> -property makes it so that properties must be used like variables and  
> non-
> property functions cannot be. In theory, that will become the default  
> behavior
> of the compiler eventually, but we couldn't enable it immediately due to  
> a
> combination of bugs with @property and the fact that it would break  
> code. For
> now, people can build with -property to make sure that their code uses
> properties properly.

To clarify, Jonathan is talking about using the -property command line  
switch for dmd.

-Steve