On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:29:22 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:21:28 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
<seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
How is f.byLine clearer and less ambiguous than f.byLine()? Or vice
versa for that matter?
Note that properties can be named things other than byLine.
-Steve
What I meant to say is that in the @property landscape the following two
conventions become suddenly attractive:
* Do not use @property at all
* Use @property for all nullary functions
And they're bound to save a lot of time to everyone involved.
I think we all agree that setters the way D1 does them are very prone to
abuse. So all that is left is no-argument functions.
There are other alternative conventions to what you stated. This is my
convention:
* use @property where the main purpose of the function is to fetch a value
(computed or not, modifying the container or not)
There are others mentioned in this thread. A property convention is
useful to readers of the code. The existence of the property feature
makes it *possible* to define conventions -- it doesn't define a
convention itself.
-Steve
