Is DMD 0.166 RC 1.0?

[Walter Bright]

Derek Parnell wrote:
>> It's an error in C++ for the same reason (can't initialize a reference 
>> with a non-const).
> 
> You are right Walter. However, a[5] looks looks like an lvalue doesn't it?
> In fact, it could have been one until the class author changed it to a
> property.  I feel that Properties need to behave as if they were data
> members rather than methods when used as such. Thus ...
> 
>   f(a.prop);
> and
>   f(a.prop());
> 
> would look *and* behave differently but without surprising the coder.
> 
> And this also means that 
> 
>   a.prop++
> 
> needs to work too. It is a great surprise to new comers that obvious things
> like this are not working as expected.

Whether it's consistent or not depends on how you think about it - what 
your mental model is of it. I'd rather have the odd cases produce error 
messages rather than have the compiler paper over what is likely a 
programmer oversight.