On 04/05/2010 21:19, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
Don wrote:
Walter Bright wrote:
Don wrote:
There are several compiler bugs relating to array operations, and
almost all relate to this issue. I'd like to fix them, but I need
to know which way it is supposed to work.
The [] should be required. I worry that otherwise there will be
ambiguous cases that will cause trouble.
Excellent.
Glad we agree. An example is the C hack where if foo is a function,
then &foo as well as foo mean the address of the function. This little
ambiguity, originally meant as a convenience, has caused much grief.
In the same vein, probably it's time to bite the bullet and require
@property for parens-less function calls.
Andrei
Yes please. That ambiguity has bitten me in the past, in a case where
the return value of the function was a function/delegate.
Basicly if you change a variable(of delegate type) into a property, code
that uses the variable as a function call will break. This is because
the function call will only call the property getter, not the actual
delegate.
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