[phobos] Time to get ready for the next release

[Jacob Carlborg]

I think I would like to have something in the middle of strict and loose semantics. I would like that functions marked with @property have to be called like a field:

auto bar = foo.field;
foo.field = 3;

But functions not marked with @property still can be called without the parentheses:

foo.bar();
foo.bar;

On 21 apr 2011, at 16:09, David Simcha wrote:

> 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.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:
> Le 2011-04-21 à 6:48, Torarin a écrit :
> 
> > Dmd has a bug that causes the @property attribute to be disregarded in
> > functions that return auto.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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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