Properties: a.b.c = 3

[Bill Baxter]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Bill Baxter<wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Steven
> Schveighoffer<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:22:14 -0400, Bill Baxter <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Similarly, taking the address should lead to an error.
>>>
>>> auto ptr = &a.b;  // ok if b is a field
>>> auto ptr = &a.b; // bogus if b is a property returning a non-lvalue
>>
>> Impossible with the current implementation -- &a.b is a delegate :)
>

[edit]

> Good point.  I suppose we can chalk that up as another problem with
> not having real properties.  Though if you were expecting it to be an
> int* then you'll probably encounter a compiler

*error*

> sooner or later.  Just
> might be far from where the actual problem is.

--bb