What is the current stage of @property ?

[12345swordy]

On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 at 21:40:44 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 at 20:24:19 UTC, Vinod K Chandran 
> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I read in an old thread that authors of D wants to eliminate 
>> @property. I just roughly read the big thread bu couldn't find 
>> a conclusion. After all that thread is a 48 page longer jumbo 
>> thread. So out of curiosity, i am asking this. What is the 
>> current state of @property ? Is it deprecated ?
>
> The current state of @property is that it doesn't really do 
> anything. D allows you to call functions without parentheses, 
> and to use assignment syntax to call a single-argument 
> function, so you can write getters and setters that work like 
> properties even if you don't use the @property annotation:
>
>
> struct Example
> {
>     private int x_;
>     int x() { return x; } // getter
>     void x(int n) { x = n; } // setter
> }
>
> void main()
> {
>     Example e;
>     e.x = 123; // calls setter
>     int y = e.x; // calls getter
> }
It can't do binary operations and unary operations.