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

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-01-24 14:01, bearophile wrote:
> Jacob Carlborg:
>
>> It would break tons of code.
>
> How much work does it take to change that makes and compilation scripts
> to compile that code using a "-noproperty" switch?

No one can answer that.

> I think this silly fear of breaking user code was one of the main causes
> of the failure of @property in the first place. If you introduce a new
> feature, then you need to introduce it cleanly since the beginning,
> otherwise you will make a mess. So future D feature must be introduced
> in a much more clean way in future, or not introduced at all.

I agree with you but Walter is very afraid of breaking code.

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/Jacob Carlborg