@property (again)

[deadalnix]

On Thursday, 21 November 2013 at 14:11:54 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 November 2013 at 13:28:01 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 11/21/2013 02:04 PM, John Colvin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 3) properties decay to normal functions when they have their 
>>> address taken
>>
>> No, why?
>
> Sorry, I forgot to add:
> 5) parenthesis are enforced for all calls on all callables 
> other than functions, including function pointers and delegates.
>

Why do we make the distinction between a first class function and 
a function in the first place ?

C and C++ and PHP are the only languages I know that do that. 
That is quite telling on how good the idea is.