opDispatch and @property setters

[Lodovico Giaretta via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 21 June 2016 at 21:11:39 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> Works when you change the return type of the the @property 
> opDispatch to auto, so that it can return the result. It's a 
> little weird, but D does support calling functions with 
> assignment syntax.
>
> Alternatively, maybe you can actually check for the @property 
> attribute in hasAssignableProperty. See 
> FunctionAttribute/functionAttributes in std.traits [1]. I 
> haven't tested this.
>
>
> [1] http://dlang.org/phobos/std_traits.html#.FunctionAttribute

Thank you very much!

I managed to get it to work by using this code:

     @property auto opDispatch(string name, Arg)(Arg arg)
     {
         mixin("return _p_data." ~ name ~ " = arg;");
     }

> It's a little weird, but D does support calling functions with 
> assignment syntax.

Definitely strange.