Question about operations on class/struct properties

[anonymous via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 15:35:26 UTC, Uranuz wrote:
> date.day++;
> date.day -= 5;
>
> Should be treated as:
>
> date.day = date.day + 1;
> date.day = date.day - 5;
>
> if the were not oveloaded. So if we have get and set property 
> methods I see that it could be calculated and this should 
> working.

This comes up every once in a while. I don't know if there are
any subtle problems, or if it's just that no one's found the time
to implement it.

> Of course I can define return value of get property as *ref* 
> but in this case I don't understand how I should use it with 
> *setter* method.

When you return a mutable reference, a setter doesn't make all
that much sense, as it can easily be circumvented, even
accidentally.