properties - Why not the set/get syntax?

[Carlos Santander]

John C escribió:
> "Cris" <central_p at hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:e0m0an$2sd1$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>> John C wrote:
>>> "Cris" <central_p at hotmail.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:e0lr0p$2n17$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>>> How would you implement a  write only property?
>>> Implement only the setter.
>> I mean a property that you can write but you cannot read. You can do that 
>> in C#. Is it possible in D too?
> 
> As I said, implement only the setter.
> 
> struct Foo {
>     int data_;
>     void data(int value) { data_ = value; }
> }
> 
> void main() {
>     Foo foo;
>     foo.data = 10;
>     int a = foo.data; // function main.Foo.data (int) does not match 
> argument types.
> } 
> 
> 

Maybe that error message is another reason to have a true property syntax. For 
someone new to D expecting data to be a property, that message is as puzzling as 
it gets.

-- 
Carlos Santander Bernal