On 7/6/21 9:27 AM, Jack Applegame wrote:
On Tuesday, 6 July 2021 at 12:33:20 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
The language always allows `a = b;` to be rewritten as `a(b);`.
And that's sad. It should happen for properties only.
Yes, I lament that there is no way to control how people call your
function. It can result in surprising things, and it means as a library
designer you have to consider this usage when picking names.
There are a few "draft" DIP proposals (under the old DIP system) here:
https://wiki.dlang.org/DIPs
But I think the time of being able to make such a disruptive change has
passed. For better or worse we have the half-implemented near-useless
meaning of `@property`, and basically it's unneeded.
-Steve
