On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 09:38:27 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2013-01-24 22:08, Adam Wilson wrote:
While I don't approve of Mr. Sabalausky's tone or attitude,
the crux of
his argument is logically sound. The problem with @property
isn't
@property, it's D's insistence on optional parens. If paren
usage was
clearly defined then this would be a non-issue. I would like
to point
out that I can't think of another systems/general purpose
language that
has an calling syntax specification as vague and convoluted as
D's. C#'s
is brutally simple. Java's is brutally simple. In C/C++
everything is a
function or field, so, brutally simple.
Make D's calling syntax simpler, end optional parens!
There are many languages that allow optional parentheses when
calling a function. Ruby, CoffeeScript and Groovy to mention a
few.
From what I see on CofeeScript website, it has a VERY different
semantic than D on function.
