[phobos] Time to get ready for the next release

David Simcha dsimcha at gmail.com
Wed Apr 27 09:06:57 PDT 2011


On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Steve Schveighoffer
<schveiguy at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I don't want to keep arguing this, but I feel compelled to keep
> re-iterating:
>
> The delegate return problem is nice to solve but is *NOT* the main thing
> that @property solves.  One can already call the delegate using a double set
> of parentheses, and it's not common to have a property that returns a
> delegate.
>
> The main problem solved is that one cannot simply use property syntax where
> it was not intended.  This is the piece that is not yet implemented.
>

Again, I just can't justify breaking existing designs for something that's
such a non-issue in practice, except in a few straw-man cases where the
function in question is poorly named.
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