What is the current stage of @property ?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 10:50:17PM +0000, Paul Backus via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 at 21:41:54 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > There are a few places where it's needed (like satisfying the range
> > API, which implicitly checks for it)
> 
> That may have been true at one point, but it isn't true now:
> 
> struct S {
>     bool empty() { return false; }
>     int front() { return 0; }
>     void popFront() {}
> }
> 
> static assert(isInputRange!S); // passes

Nice.  So pretty soon I can get rid of @property spam from my code,
which is really not very useful and only adds extra keystrokes for
little benefit.


T

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