Properties don't work as expected

[zodd via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 11:02:11 UTC, Satoshi wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 10:52:10 UTC, zodd wrote:
>> Property functions are used wrong by a compiler when it needs 
>> to get and set a value at the same time:
>>
>> [...]
>
>
>
> Try
>  @property ref int value() {
> 		return value_;
>     }

What if I need a setter function? I would never bother with 
properties and just used the field itself otherwise.