OT: for (;;) {} vs while (true) {}

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On Friday, 25 November 2016 at 15:29:31 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 25 November 2016 at 15:03:26 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> We need to change the range API then. -- Andrei
>
> That's absurd, popFront is in no way semantically a property, 
> so it should not get @property.
>
> It has been so many years of this being poorly defined. Let's 
> just close the book and officially put the status quo on 
> optional parenthesis in stone: they are optional on 
> zero-argument calls, regardless of @property, and that isn't 
> going to change.
>
> Then this popFront question becomes moot.

This causes a world of pain when you want to pass functions 
around. Nothing gets my blood pressure up like the following code:

https://forum.dlang.org/post/piktfrtpltmjvjmedspr@forum.dlang.org