[phobos] Time to get ready for the next release

[Steve Schveighoffer]

I've proposed in the past that functions which have no arguments and return void could be callable without parentheses, as they cannot be mistaken for properties.


I think we all agree that non- at property functions which take a single parameter should not be callable in property form.

Functions that are not properties which return a value should be required to have parentheses to distinguish them from properties.


The above is all consistent with TDPL as far as I know.


-Steve




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>From: David Simcha <dsimcha at gmail.com>
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>As I've said before, we really need to decide whether @property has loose or strict semantics.  Loose semantics means that non- at property functions would still be callable without (), etc but @property functions wouldn't be allowed to have ()s.  Frankly, I hate @property, want to to have as little effect as possible,  like the flexibility of being able to call the same function both ways, and would have a lot of code break if this were taken away, so my vote is loose semantics.
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>On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:
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>Le 2011-04-21 à 6:48, Torarin a écrit :
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>>> Dmd has a bug that causes the @property attribute to be disregarded in
>>> functions that return auto.
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>>Indeed. I think I have a fix for that in the "@property" branch of my DMD fork on github. Perhaps I should make a pull request from that.
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>>Actually, I could make a pull request for the entire "@property" branch, it shouldn't impact things much as enforcement of @property is only done if you add the command line switch -property. Would that make sense?
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>>Michel Fortin
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