DIP23 draft: Fixing properties redux

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:36:10 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 2/3/13 7:40 AM, kenji hara wrote:
>> 2013/2/3 Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy at yahoo.com
>> <mailto:schveiguy at yahoo.com>>
>>
>>     I have a possible suggestion to fix this within your proposal:
>>
>>     @property on single-arg free functions ONLY enables a setter mode,
>>     it does not work as a UFCS getter.
>>
>>   [snip]
>>
>> I was thinking the exact same thing.
>
> Then we can't make this work:
>
> @property ref T front(T[] array) { return array[0]; }
>
> unittest
> {
>     auto a = [ 1, 2, 3];
>     auto b = a.front;
> }

ref T front(T[] array) { return array[0]; }

// same unittest

But I also can agree with the idea you currently have to make UFCS  
properties require a 'this' initial parameter.

-Steve