DIP23 draft: Fixing properties redux

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/3/13 7:49 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 07:16:17 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer
> <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 03:16:08 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Walter and I have had a discussion on how to finalize properties.
>>>
>>> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP23
>>
>> I agree with everything in this. This looks exactly like what I wanted
>> a few days ago. Thank you!
>>
>> One aspect not addressed is free-function properties:
>
> I thought of one other problem with this proposal. You can no longer get
> a delegate of a property. Like it or not, there will be existing code
> that does get a delegate to properties (it is allowed now).
>
> I think we should provide a __traits accessor for this. Otherwise, there
> is no way to port said code to the new style.

In the proposal &a.b gets the delegate of a property.

Andrei