Properties: a.b.c = 3

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>> Yeh, I don't understand how any of this has anything to do with
>>> properties.  It's the same question if you ask what should
>>>
>>>  a.b().c = 5
>>>
>>>  do.  It's the same issue whether you have properties or not, and
>>> needs a solution whether you have properties or not.
>>
>> Well the problem is that a.b().c = 5 makes it clear that there's a 
>> function call in the mix, so the field-like behavior is not 
>> necessarily to be expected.
> 
> No. Whenever you do
> 
> Expression1 . Expression2 . Expression3 = Expression4.
> 
> and Expression 2 is a struct type, and Expression 3 is not a static 
> field of the struct, that should be an error.

I don't think D allows expressions to the right of ".".

Andrei