Currently -property in the Phobos build is a net liability because it forces us to append "()" all over the place, at a time when general agreement has been reached that trailing parens will be optional.

Shall we remove -property for now?


Andrei

On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 08:28:53 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Currently -property in the Phobos build is a net liability because it forces us to append "()" all over the place, at a time when general agreement has been reached that trailing parens will be optional.
> 
> Shall we remove -property for now?

If we're sure that we're going to keep parenless funtion calls (as unfortunately seem to be the consensus), then there's no point in using -property in its current state. Depending on what we do with properties and @property, we may or may not want a flag to test the change in behavior later, in which case, -property could be changed to do that, but unless/until that happens, there's no point in using -property.

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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei@erdani.com> wrote:
> Currently -property in the Phobos build is a net liability because it forces us to append "()" all over the place, at a time when general agreement has been reached that trailing parens will be optional.
>
> Shall we remove -property for now?

I'd rather make it a no-op in DMD first. As long as `-property` is in the compiler, people will complain if their Phobos client code doesn't compile with it.

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20-Feb-2013 23:18, David Nadlinger пишет:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei@erdani.com> wrote:
>> Currently -property in the Phobos build is a net liability because it forces
>> us to append "()" all over the place, at a time when general agreement has
>> been reached that trailing parens will be optional.
>>
>> Shall we remove -property for now?
> I'd rather make it a no-op in DMD first. As long as `-property` is in
> the compiler, people will complain if their Phobos client code doesn't
> compile with it.

+1

And I've seen people insisting on and enforcing -property in its current broken state.

Plus some kind of anouncement on where we are actually _plaining_ to go w.r.t. -property & @property won't hurt.
Even vague statements like "we are plaining sometime soon to switch properties to what's outlined in DIP23 +- some amendments"
is better then sheer vacuum.

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Dmitry Olshansky

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