@property needed or not needed?

[deadalnix]

On Sunday, 2 December 2012 at 06:58:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Sunday, December 02, 2012 07:49:52 deadalnix wrote:
>> And what do you think about map!(x => x * x) = generator(x, y, 
>> z)
>> ?
>
> What's that even supposed to mean? map has been given no 
> function argument
> either as UFCS or with a normal function call, so it's not 
> being called. And
> even if it were, it wouldn't result in an lvalue, so putting it 
> on the left of
> an assignment makes no sense. I have no idea what you're trying 
> to do here.
>

I want to express that regular function are really different than 
regular function calls. If map had to behave like a property, 
then the code above would be correct, and 100% equivalent to 
Andrei's snippet.