DIP23 draft: Fixing properties redux

[Timon Gehr]

On 02/03/2013 05:11 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> ...
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> 2. Allow people to do whatever they need to do without much aggravation.
> In that case &a.p obeys the normal rules of taking a method's address,
> and &(a.p) applies to the returned value.
>
> I favor (2) and put it in http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP23. Will talk to Walter.
>

That is horrible! The entire language construct is necessarily a bit of 
a patchwork, but there is no reason to aggravate this gratuitously.

> ...
>> * Are templated properties allowed?
>> ** The access syntax for properties doesn't allow providing types
>
> No.

Ditto.

> Templated member variables are not allowed either.
>

(Actually they are silently rewritten to static member variables. I do 
not like that.)