Properties no longer work?

[Stewart Gordon]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Stewart Gordon wrote:
<snip>
>> I discovered quite recently that C supports such oddities as
>>
>>     typedef int qwert(char*);
>>
>> (if I've got the syntax right), thereby defining qwert to be an alias 
>> for a function of type int(char*).  I've seen it in the LAM MPI 
>> headers.  But as you say, it seems useless - AFAIK the only thing you 
>> can do with it is declare something of type pointer to qwert.
> 
> I've quite recently discovered that D supports that as well!
> -> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=270
> But ah... there is a use for such a typedef after all. I thought they 
> could not be used in declarations at all, but forgot about declaring a 
> pointer to it. But still I don't know if they are worth the strange syntax.

Can anyone think of a use case for this?  I can't.  Just declare a
typedef or alias of the function pointer type and be done with it.  UIMS 
there is nothing to be gained, besides empty complexity, by trying to 
support such things.

Stewart.

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