D's "accessors" are like abusing operator overloads

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Derek Parnell" <derek at psych.ward> wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:57:50 +0300, Denis Koroskin wrote:
>
>> This way you can't do "a = b = c = 42;"-style chaining.
>
> A bit off topic, but what's so good about that coding style anyway?
>

I've been known to use it now and then if there's a few variables I'm 
initing to the same value (assuming of course that the whole point is for 
the variables to start out at the same value). It's certainly not a huge 
improvement, but I see nothing wrong with it.