Properties don't work as expected

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 22:03:43 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 21:58:39 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 5 July 2016 at 21:46:19 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>>> C++ templates vs D templates. this alone is enough.
>>
>> They are almost the same...
>
> yep. just like C is *almost* the assembler.

Maybe you could give me an useful example in D that does not 
involve «static if» or «string mixins» that would be difficult to 
represent in C++?