Error: xxx is not an lvalue

[Tyro[a.c.edwards]]

On 5/3/2009 6:36 AM, Denis Koroskin wrote:
> On Sun, 03 May 2009 01:02:41 +0400, Tyro[a.c.edwards] <nospam at home.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 5/3/2009 3:44 AM, flourish wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> why does the following code not compile -- or how to declare a (usable)
>>> property of an associative array field?
>>>
>>> //////////////////////
>>> class Test
>>> {
>>> private int[int] _testMap;
>>> public int[int] testMap() {return _testMap;}
>>> }
>>>
>>
>> testMap() is a getter and can only return the value it is designed to.
>> You must implement a setter to accomplish what you are trying to di.
>> Unfortunately I'm not sure how you do that with AAs so I'll leave that
>> to someone that's a little smarter than I.
>>
[...]
>
> No, you are wrong, testMap works like a property here. I believe,
> original code _should_ work. For example, it works if you replace
> int[int] with int[].
> All the trouble is because of an awful properties implementation in D,
> and temporaries not being able to be passed by reference:
>

Thanks for the clarification.