DIP23 draft: Fixing properties redux

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/3/13 10:49 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:37:45 -0500
> schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>:
>
>> On 2/3/13 7:34 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> On 2013-02-03 09:16, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> Walter and I have had a discussion on how to finalize properties.
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP23
>>>
>>> What about:
>>>
>>> writeln = "asd";
>>>
>>> Allowed or not?
>>
>> No because writeln is not a property. For non-properties there's no
>> lowering of assignment.
>>
>> Andrei
>>
>
> Then this should be removed in the proposal:
>
> If a function returns a reference, then assignment through the
> paren-less call should work:
>
> unittest
> {
>      static int x;
>      ref int fun1() { return x; }
>      fun1 = 42;
> }

No. That's not a lowering.

Andrei