DIP23 draft: Fixing properties redux

ixid nuaccount at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 05:12:11 PST 2013


> And how often do you think you'll find yourself in the 
> situation of needing to get a delegate from a property anyway? 
> Can't we just make »@property getter expressions are always 
> equivalent to their return value« a hard (simple!) rule and add 
> something like __traits(propertyGetter, ...) for the rare cases 
> where you really need to get hold of the underlying function?

As a beginner D user this seems like a far better solution, it's 
much clearer and doesn't violate one's normal understanding of 
parentheses (which is exactly as you've outlined). &(a.b) feels 
very much like a hack.


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