D's "accessors" are like abusing operator overloads

[BCS]

Hello Denis,

> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:53:51 +0300, BCS <none at anon.com> wrote:
> 
>> One option would be to only allow that fn = v syntax where fn returns
>> void.
>> 
> Obscure rule and a bad idea in general. This way you can't do "a = b =
> c = 42;"-style chaining.
> 

I'd say that chaining example would be a bad idea anyway. strange things 
would start happening if b or c altered the value or returned a different 
type. One option, if you insist on chaining working, would be to restrict 
it to void returns and have the expression evaluate to the RHS.