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

[Timon Gehr]

On 01/25/2013 10:44 PM, Zach the Mystic wrote:
> Here are my two cents:
>
> First, about optional parentheses:
>
> Optional parentheses = ambiguity.
> ...

No, you can definitely have ambiguity without optional parentheses.
Unless that is supposed to be a destructive update. Is your statement 
ambiguous?


> int foo() { return 4; }
> auto x = foo; // gives 4 or gives function foo?
>
> It seems to me any ambiguity should be an error. However… it only
> matters when the type system can't provide the missing detail, as above.
> ...

That is not ambiguous.