Using ()s in @property functions

[Chad J]

Whoops, made a mistake.

On 06/29/2010 08:03 AM, Chad J wrote:
> On 06/29/2010 07:16 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> If I'm reading this correctly, you are saying that you want &foo.front
>> to return a pointer to uint, not a delegate?
>>
>> This is what I'd expect if @property forced no parentheses.  That is,
>> foo.front can be replaced with (foo.front()) always, so &foo.front
>> always translates to &(foo.front()).
>>
>> What this means is that you can't get a delegate to the property
>> function.  This makes sense -- if you replaced the property with an
>> actual field, you wouldn't be able to get a delegate anyways.  A
>> property should operate just like a field.
>>
>> -Steve
> 
> That's the spirit of it.  Properties are fields, except much more
> powerful but addressing is tricky.
> 
> There is one thing that bugs me about this solution though.  What if the
> user does this:
> (1) Grab the pointer.  *ptr = prop;
(1) Grab the pointer.  T* ptr = ∝

> (2) assigns to it.  *ptr = val;
> (3) expects the result to be updated in prop.  assert(val == prop);