On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 14:02:51 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 12/13/11 10:32 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > > On Monday, December 12, 2011 18:00:35 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> On 12/12/11 1:12 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > >>> On Monday, December 12, 2011 08:46:18 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >>>> Insisting on the current property semantics was a sizeable mistake > >>>> of > >>>> this community, and I am sorry we gave into it. > >>> > >>> Aside from the fact that the behavior of -property isn't the > >>> default, > >>> what's the problem with @property? > >> > >> Other than it being completely useless, requiring more rote > >> memorization, and fomenting time-wasting discussion? None. > > > > So, you prefer the situation where any function with no arguments can be > > used as a getter and any function with a single argument can be used as > > a setter? > No. That would be a false choice.
I'm not saying that those are the only choices, but you seem to think that the current situation is worse than what we had before, which I don't understand. The current situation looks all around better to me. - Jonathan M Davis
