Privatize a few members to allow messing with them #11353

matheus matheus at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 19:55:56 UTC 2020


On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 at 19:46:35 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 at 19:42:57 UTC, matheus wrote:
>
>> in this case this was more a style thing than anything else 
>> right? Or is there something I'm not able to see?
>
> Before the change, linnum and charnum are public variables, one 
> can do a += on them. After the change, they become properties 
> accessing, as the PR says, private variables:
>
>     @safe @nogc pure @property
>     {
>         const uint linnum() { return _linnum; }
>         const uint charnum() { return _charnum; }
>         void linnum(uint rhs) { _linnum = rhs; }
>         void charnum(uint rhs) { _charnum = rhs; }
>     }
>
> ...with which the += won't work (at least this variant, as the 
> getter isn't returning ref).

Oh I see now and thanks for the information.

Matheus.


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