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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 1/24/13 7:41 PM, kenji hara wrote:
> I think that the "optional parentheses" feature for normal functions
> should always work in _shallowly_. Even if a function returns some
> callable object, "optional parentheses" should not applied to the return
> object recursively.
>
> That means:
> void delegate() foo() { ... }
> void main() {
>    auto x = foo();  // typeof(x) == void delegate()
>    auto y = foo;    // typeof(y) == void delegate()
> }
>
> Kenji Hara

Interesting, so that would mean if anyone ever wants to get the delegate 
AND call it in one shot would need to write: foo()().

I think this proposal has merit.

Andrei