Using opDispatch as *magic* getter/setter. Possible or not?

[Simen kjaeraas]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:32:35 +0200, Aleksandar Ružičić  
<ruzicic.aleksandar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to use opDispatch as generic getter and setter at the
> same time? Something like __get() and __set() in PHP..
>
> this is what I've tried: https://gist.github.com/895571
>
> and I get Error: template instance opDispatch!("bar") matches more
> than one template declaration, path\to\test.d(57):opDispatch(string
> entryName) and path\to\test.d(66):opDispatch(string entryName)
>
> Is mixing @property with opDispatch supposed to work at all or is
> opDispatch only ment for method calls?
>
> Or maybe there is some other way to achive what I want and I'm not
> aware of it? :-)

Bug 620[1] is related to what you ask. I have written a solution there,
but I do not remember how well it works, and have no way of testing it
currently:

template opDispatch( string name ) {
     auto opDispatch( T... )( T args ) {
         // Do something!
     }
}

[1]: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=620

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Simen