another properties thread

[12345swordy]

On Monday, 26 April 2021 at 18:14:49 UTC, Luhrel wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 April 2021 at 07:44:42 UTC, drug wrote:
>> 22.04.2021 05:41, Adam D. Ruppe пишет:
>>> On Thursday, 22 April 2021 at 02:25:29 UTC, Moth wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> The @property annotation does almost nothing, so you can 
>>> still do properties without the annotation.
>>> 
>>> The only thing @property actually does is change 
>>> `typeof(obj.prop)` afrom function over to the type it returns.
>>> 
>>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> Why? What exactly do you need it to do?
>>> 
>>> (I myself want property to be fixed but I have a specific 
>>> list of cases why, so curious what you are thinking of...)
>>
>> I use @property in my gui, it is really handy to be able to 
>> draw all public members and properties of some data structure 
>> just passing it to widget using reflection. In other case I 
>> would be forced to use yet another attribute, but this 
>> attribute wouldn't be so handy because @property is a part of 
>> the language. I do not hesitate to use properties in my code 
>> and still have no any problem with them, so why not?
>
> Some basic functionalities like `prop += 3` / `++prop` are not 
> working.
>
> 12345swordy tried to fix that in PR 
> [#12097](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/12097), but there's 
> no activity since 3 months so idk.

I am still here. It just that I don't have any time for it.
-Alex