Prevention of UFCS hijacking

[Jesse Phillips]

On Tuesday, 27 August 2013 at 19:41:08 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 8/27/13, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
>>> and this is also by design.
>>
>> If that can be called a design at all, it's a horrible design.
>
> I would call it an accidental implementation detail at best! :)

It was by design, then @property was added and now everyone is 
confused why it exists. Pretty sure the consensus was to require 
@property for assignment, but parens were to be optional. At 
least it seemed to have the least disagreement.