@property - take it behind the woodshed and shoot it?

[BLM768]

On Saturday, 10 August 2013 at 10:29:51 UTC, Stian Pedersen wrote:
> To add to the mess - or maybe suggest a new approach, what 
> about:
>
> class A
> {
>     int foo();
>     void foo=(int a);
>     private foo_;
> }
>
> Then a.foo = 42; calls the foo= method. No other conversions 
> from a=b to a method invocation.
>
> It may be suggested in one of these 46 pages which I haven't 
> read. And it'll probably break a lot of stuff.

The problem with this approach is that the getter is still 
operating under the semantics of a method, but, as a property, it 
should be acting like a field. An approach like this would work:

class A {