Prevention of UFCS hijacking

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 08:02:18PM +0200, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
[...]
> Btw, why exactly is the following allowed to compile?:
> 
> -----
> import std.conv;
> import std.stdio;
> 
> struct S { }
> 
> void main()
> {
>     S s;
>     writeln(s.text = "foo");
> }
> -----
> 
> This translates into std.conv.text(s, "foo"). I'm not a fan,
> especially since 'text' is not a @property. But we've already reached
> the consensus that all functions can be called like properties (for
> some reason..), so I guess it's too late to change this.

We have? Really?  I haven't been keeping track of all the details, but
my last impression was that we agreed that calling non- at property
functions with a=b syntax should be illegal.


T

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