Property discussion wrap-up

[TommiT]

On Thursday, 31 January 2013 at 02:10:51 UTC, TommiT wrote:
> Keyword property is like the keyword struct, except:
>
> 1) properties can't have data members
> 2) properties can't have static member functions
> 3) properties can't have constructors/destructors
> 4) property instances always point to null
> 5) property instances' size is 0
> 6) if a property is declared inside a class/struct, all its
>    member functions receive an implicit 'outer' variable
>    which references the encapsulating object. Whether or
>    not 'outer' is const ref or ref depends only on the
>    constness of the encapsulating object.
(CONT'D)
      Instances of such nested properties can be default-
      constructed only in the lexical scope where the
      property type is defined.