property syntax strawman
Frank Benoit
keinfarbton at googlemail.com
Sun Aug 2 03:03:16 PDT 2009
Walter Bright schrieb:
> Zhenyu Zhou wrote:
>> Walter Bright Wrote:
>>> but oops! That defines a field. So we came up with essentially a hack:
>>>
>>> bool empty{}
>>
>> weird syntax
>
> I agree, it's a wart.
>
>
>> I'd rather use
>> bool empty=() { ... }
>> void empty=(bool b) { ... }
>
> I suggested that, but Andrei thought it looked unintuitive, and he has a
> point.
Or how about making it a single method?
bool empty=(bool* value){
if( value ) _empty = *value;
return _empty;
}
The compiler rewrites the calling code to either pass the address or null.
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