https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22769
--- Comment #5 from Vladimir Panteleev <dlang-bugzi...@thecybershadow.net> --- It has been a while, and I think the strict properties DIPs were about entirely forbidding "someProperty()"; whereas in this case, it may make more sense for incremental improvement in the form of fixing only syntax which is "ambiguous" like it is here. --