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

[Adam Wilson]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:14:00 -0800, mist <none at none.none> wrote:

> On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 21:00:49 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> Being able to swap out a public variable with a function without having  
>> to
>> change any code using it is arguably the primary reasons that property
>> functions exist in the first place. ...
>
> Yes, but not just any function. Side-effect free function that controls  
> access to data. And Adam suggested it is fine to use properties to add  
> side-effects to data assignments which is drastically different. I agree  
> with all your words so it is probably just misunderstanding.

Actually I said that in C# is possible to write properties with  
side-effects, but that it runs counter to guidelines. I personally do NOT  
write properties with side-effects.

I was attempting to illustrate in a [much to] concise way why optional  
parens are bad...

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