On 1/24/13 2:14 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Thursday, January 24, 2013 18:54:00 David Nadlinger wrote:
On Thursday, 24 January 2013 at 17:51:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
No. The complications come from the fact that (a) nobody could
agree what should be a @property and what shouldn't; (b)
@property adds noise for everybody for the sake of a corner
case (functions returning delegates); (c) the @property
discipline failed to align itself in any way with better code
quality.
The simple(r) explanation is: The current *implementation* is
broken.
Exactly. Most of the problems with @property stem from the fact that it's not
implemented properly, particularly with regards to the -property flag.
That is because it's not well defined.
Andrei
