On 11.12.2011 22:24, Jonathan M Davis wrote: ...
It was debated some time ago, and it ended up being a property. The fact that save is an action verb and not a noun automatically disqualifies it as a property IMHO, but it was made into a property, and we're pretty much stuck with it at some point. As far as what the function does, I don't think that it's a problem that it's a property, but it's not named like a property, so the situation with regards to save is not ideal, but it's too late now.
I really don't get this. When D has 10,000 programmers using it professionally, it's too late. But now it's more like 5 or 10. And they are all presumably aware that D2 is still undergoing some polish. So are the maybe a few hundred people that are using D for hobby projects. They are early adopters, and they know what that entails. I call bogus on the backwards compatibility argument. There's not a lot to be compatible with at this stage. Not compared to what D2 wants to become.
As for Andrei's book using save with the parentheses: If D2 gains traction, I'm sure there will be a second edition of that book. And you already want to have the errata handy when using the book. I don't see what the big deal is, at least not compared to letting this stay in the language forever.
save being a property is a stupid inconsistency. It's easy to fix, the cost is relatively low. The people using D2 now are all part of a community that want D to succeed, as am I. It's a change for the better, which I'm sure most current D2 users would agree with. How hard can it be?
