Possible @property compromise

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 17:32:20 H. S. Teoh wrote:
> If this is the case, then I would have to say that @property is
> fundamentally broken. The whole point of @property is to make functions
> behave like variables, but if this "variable emulation" isn't even
> complete, then it defeats the purpose of having it in the first place.

It works if you can restrict a variable to a reasonable subset of its normal 
operations (which primarily means that you can't take its address or pass it 
by ref). You just can't fix that. Not with a systems language like D. Variables 
and functions are just fundamentally different. C# manages it because you don't 
have as much low-level control over variables (like taking their address). But 
if we can do something like

struct S
{
    @property int prop;
}

then that fixes the problem.

- Jonathan M Davis