DIP23 draft: Fixing properties redux

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:28:52 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer  
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:


> As for templates that return a templated type, it should be allowed,  
> although the calling syntax would have to be for the explicit template  
> call, since you can't do IFTI on return values.  In other words:
>
> template x(T) { @property T x(){return to!(T)(_x);} }  // could be  
> shortened to normal @property T x(T)()
>
> auto xcopy = obj.x!(string).x;

Hm... I actually am changing my mind on this, you should be able to do:

auto xcopy = obj.x!(string);

For the simple reason that if @property is omitted, this would work  
(simple lack of parens).  It makes no sense to make properties not have  
this ability.

-Steve