Properties no longer work?

[Bruno Medeiros]

Don Clugston wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> "Hasan Aljudy" <hasan.aljudy at gmail.com> wrote in message 
>> news:ea6fsm$2lb6$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>> Did properties stop working?
>>>
>>> assuming object abc has a method foo:
>>> # auto x = abc.foo;
>>> gives a compiler error: x cannot be a function (or something like that)
>>
>> Stop using type inference.  ;)
>>
>> int x = abc.foo;
>>
>> When you write "abc.foo" as the initializer for a type-inferenced 
>> declaration, it tries to deduce the type of the declaration before 
>> converting the property access to a function call.  Thus, it thinks 
>> you're trying to create a variable x with the same type as abc.foo; 
>> i.e. a function type (not a function pointer, just a function), which 
>> is illegal.  This might be a bug, but it's been around for a while, 
>> and not just since 0.163. 
> 
> Function types are just bizarre. I only recently discovered that C has 
> them. Are you allowed to do anything with them, other than converting 
> them to a function pointer by taking their address?

C has them? Where did you see that, I was under the impression that C 
only had function pointers, and they were all the same, such that the 
value a function was the same as the value of taking the address of the 
function:
(func) == (&func)
Similarly to what happens to arrays.

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Bruno Medeiros - CS/E student
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