Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:51:29 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in
message news:hjtcbd$r0...@digitalmars.com...
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
And yes, I already pointed out that would make it a no-argument
function. And that's precisely my point. If we accept that it's bad
to paint a car via its "@property" wheel, then how can we possibly
accept this to not be just as bad?:
auto car = new Car();
auto wheel = car.getWheel_ThisIsAFunctionNotAProperty();
wheel.paintTheCar();
Because a function doesn't attempt to emulate a field.
D's approach to properties *forces* functions to emulate fields.
Unfortunately not. It forces nothing. That's my problem with the
feature - it's nothing more than fostering a convention.
It forces a convention.
It forces you to define a convention as vacuous and open to
interpretation as any other. Not a quantum leap I reckon.
Andrei
