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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/24/13 12:54 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 17:51:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> No. The complications come from the fact that (a) nobody could agree
>> what should be a @property and what shouldn't; (b) @property adds
>> noise for everybody for the sake of a corner case (functions returning
>> delegates); (c) the @property discipline failed to align itself in any
>> way with better code quality.
>
> The simple(r) explanation is: The current *implementation* is broken.

Simpler doesn't make it true.

Andrei