disable all member function calls for rvalues?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Kagamin wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
> 
>>> I think, possible solution is to disallow assign operations on the return value: =, +=, *=, ~=, ++ etc, but read operations should be allowed and functions should be callable by their symbolical names.
>> Won't help. Consider:
>>
>> a.b.c.d.e.f = g;
>>
>> If anywhere on the path an rvalue is created, the code is useless busywork.
> 
> In contrast with the original example this is not a bug.

I think it is to the extent (a) it does nothing (b) the syntactic 
equivalent code involving fields does something. It's an egregious 
breakage of consistency because properties were meant to be 
generalizations of fields in the first place.

Andrei