On Thursday, 31 January 2013 at 16:44:03 UTC, TommiT wrote:
> So, going back to the concept of property as a crossbreed between a namespace and a variable. Here's my new take on it:
> [..]

Let's scratch that idea. See this instead:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/poiplzvdkfrdohobniif@forum.dlang.org

Just cross posting proposal http://forum.dlang.org/post/rnwpxkmyihpzqlevhcoz@forum.dlang.org

Thanks)

On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 19:37:40 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-01-28 14:28, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> I agree optional parens take getting used to.
>
> I think it was easy to get used to. Now it's instead harder to use other languages which doesn't allow optional parentheses.

I can imagine there is an advantage in expressiveness,but OTOH wouldn't it make parsers based tooling more difficult to build ? One of the great advantages of a static language is having powerful tooling, something that doesn't exist in most dynamic languages.

On Sunday, 3 February 2013 at 06:09:35 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
> On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 19:37:40 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2013-01-28 14:28, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> I agree optional parens take getting used to.
>>
>> I think it was easy to get used to. Now it's instead harder to use other languages which doesn't allow optional parentheses.
>
> I can imagine there is an advantage in expressiveness,but OTOH wouldn't it make parsers based tooling more difficult to build ? One of the great advantages of a static language is having powerful tooling, something that doesn't exist in most dynamic languages.

This surely makes it harder.

On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 19:37:40 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-01-28 14:28, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> I agree optional parens take getting used to.
>
> I think it was easy to get used to. Now it's instead harder to use other languages which doesn't allow optional parentheses.

easy != simple . We should reach for simple.

On Friday, 25 January 2013 at 18:57:17 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> As the property thread is growing big again, arguments get lost, etc I

Maybe it's time for a new thread: "Wrap-up of the property discussion wrap-up"...