On Monday, 12 December 2011 at 15:16:56 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Monday, 12 December 2011 at 15:07:16 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
The old situation where you could write complete nonsense code
like `std.file.read = "foo.txt";` is far worse.
If we start removing features because someone can use them
when deliberately obfuscating their code, we might as well
just abandon the whole idea of programming languages.
Firstly, no feature is removed, it is changed, unless you
consider calling completely property-unrelated functions with
this syntax a feature. Secondly, it is an extreme example, more
commonly occurring examples would be conflating property access
with calling a member function with non-trivial complexity. With
enforced @property, the compiler helps the user write the most
readable code for himself and more importantly, others.
