This is a specific request to Walter and Andrei, not a call for yet another massive debate. I'm pretty sure every view has been heard already, many times over.

Walter/Andrei, can you take a final decision on this? You put a lot of effort in to DIP23 and it's just sitting there. It's a subjective topic that's been beaten to death by the community multiple times; there will never be consensus so it's a job for leadership.


P.S. I noticed something missing from DIP23:

How do I take an alias of an @property function? Or a 0-arg member function? Or a 1-arg free function?
Another way of putting it would be: is there a way to refer to the name of a function that doesn't require parens? Name as in pass-by-name.

On 4/14/15 4:54 AM, John Colvin wrote:
> This is a specific request to Walter and Andrei, not a call for yet
> another massive debate. I'm pretty sure every view has been heard
> already, many times over.
>
> Walter/Andrei, can you take a final decision on this? You put a lot of
> effort in to DIP23 and it's just sitting there. It's a subjective topic
> that's been beaten to death by the community multiple times; there will
> never be consensus so it's a job for leadership.
>
>
> P.S. I noticed something missing from DIP23:
>
> How do I take an alias of an @property function? Or a 0-arg member
> function? Or a 1-arg free function?
> Another way of putting it would be: is there a way to refer to the name
> of a function that doesn't require parens? Name as in pass-by-name.

Yah, I consider @property an unfinished affair that needs finishing. Maybe I'll work on it for the hackathon. -- Andrei

On Tuesday, 14 April 2015 at 11:54:11 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> This is a specific request to Walter and Andrei, not a call for yet another massive debate. I'm pretty sure every view has been heard already, many times over.
>
> Walter/Andrei, can you take a final decision on this? You put a lot of effort in to DIP23 and it's just sitting there. It's a subjective topic that's been beaten to death by the community multiple times; there will never be consensus so it's a job for leadership.
>
>
> P.S. I noticed something missing from DIP23:
>
> How do I take an alias of an @property function? Or a 0-arg member function? Or a 1-arg free function?
> Another way of putting it would be: is there a way to refer to the name of a function that doesn't require parens? Name as in pass-by-name.

For cross-referencing purposes, an unpleasant consequence of the current situation: http://forum.dlang.org/post/rfrhuipeaoswqsunutal@forum.dlang.org

On 4/16/15 7:40 AM, John Colvin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 14 April 2015 at 11:54:11 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> This is a specific request to Walter and Andrei, not a call for yet
>> another massive debate. I'm pretty sure every view has been heard
>> already, many times over.
>>
>> Walter/Andrei, can you take a final decision on this? You put a lot of
>> effort in to DIP23 and it's just sitting there. It's a subjective
>> topic that's been beaten to death by the community multiple times;
>> there will never be consensus so it's a job for leadership.
>>
>>
>> P.S. I noticed something missing from DIP23:
>>
>> How do I take an alias of an @property function? Or a 0-arg member
>> function? Or a 1-arg free function?
>> Another way of putting it would be: is there a way to refer to the
>> name of a function that doesn't require parens? Name as in pass-by-name.
>
> For cross-referencing purposes, an unpleasant consequence of the current
> situation: http://forum.dlang.org/post/rfrhuipeaoswqsunutal@forum.dlang.org

Yah, saw that. It's an unforced error in the design of D. -- Andrei

On Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 14:40:38 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> For cross-referencing purposes, an unpleasant consequence of the current situation: http://forum.dlang.org/post/rfrhuipeaoswqsunutal@forum.dlang.org

struct Foo {
    bool registered = false;

    void register(bool x) @property {
        writeln("Registering ", x);
        register = true;
    }
}

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