alias to a property as an argument to a mixin template

[comco]

On Monday, 24 September 2012 at 11:39:08 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:

> Oh. I think I just got what your "reassign" was meant to do. I 
> think I see it now. I guess it does work nice actually.
>
> I'd say that unfortunately, your *new* reassign is making the 
> assumption that it is possible to grab a reference of the 
> passed in objects. It will fail with "write properties", that 
> need to evaluate different functions depending on read context 
> and write context:
...
> The problem with this approach though, is that it only works 
> once per scope... and really, it is not much more than a 
> glorified macro.

That's exactly the point :) - the `unfortunate` assumption about 
the references keeps this functionality nice and usable, and 
anything beyond that would just be too bit of a clumsy glorified 
macro, not worth the effort using it.