Properties don't work as expected

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 13:14:29 UTC, zodd wrote:
> Why do you have so pessimistic opinion?

it is realistic.

> Is D a perspective language to learn or it's stagnating and 
> never be production ready?

what do you want here: "non-stagnating" or "production ready"? D 
is "production ready", and that means that D should be STABLE. we 
can't introduce features just 'cause they are cool. we can't even 
change the features without long and hard discussion. if we'll 
finalize property specs, we'll stick with it forever. and devs 
have many other things to do too, most of it for free and in 
their spare time. that's why finalizing properties is postponed, 
for undefined time.

you *can* workaround this limitation for now. it won't be the 
cleanest code in the world, but you can do it. hint: alias this + 
returning temporary struct with pointer.

and, of course, you can hire Walter or Andrei on a full time to 
implement the feature you want. otherwise -- this is minor thing, 
which, nevertheless, require a huge amout of design work. it is 
unlikely that language devs will drop all other things, and go 
design and implementing it. and DIP will not help much: W&A still 
should evaluate it, and it's almost as hard as writing it from 
scratch.

if this minor thing blocks you from using D... alas. otherwise, 
just make a workaroung and keep going. *eventually* this will be 
fixed, but you'd better don't wait for it.