DIP28, on properties, availabel for destruction as well
deadalnix
deadalnix at gmail.com
Wed Mar 13 08:55:47 PDT 2013
On Saturday, 2 March 2013 at 16:48:14 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> - typeof(__traits(propertyAccessors, prop)(exp)) is void and
>> its
>> result is used. I don't see the point of special casing this.
>
> Consistent support for multiple assignment.
>
It isn't prevented by DIP28. Plus, this is already the behavior
of opAssign and firends.
>> It increase complexity
>
> Yup, marginally.
>
>> and reduces what you can express.
>>
>
> Not strictly.
>
It does. I''m not sure that the extra possibility are really
useful, but I'm reluctant to increase complexity to reduce
expression capabilities (unless they cause real problems).
>> It is unclear what happen when the property is aliased or
>> passed as
>> alias parameter in both DIP, and should be effectively
>> corrected.
>
> No, both DIPs specify it exactly. DIP28 is broken in that
> regard.
> But DIP28 leaves it up to imagination what it means for an
> expression to occur in the left-hand side of an assignment.
DIP28 is fixed in that regard. You were right.
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