What's the story with @property again?
Alexandru Ermicioi
alexandru.ermicioi at gmail.com
Sun Nov 10 11:26:04 UTC 2024
On Saturday, 9 November 2024 at 11:58:34 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
>
> Honestly, UFCS kind of killed most of what was planned for
> @property, and no new plan has ever been decided upon, so it's
> just sat there, and since it isn't really causing issues, it
> hasn't been a priority to figure out what to do about it. There
> aren't a lot of people working on the language, and other stuff
> has mattered a lot more. In all likelihood, @property will just
> stick around as it is until someone takes the time to write a
> DIP to do something interesting with it (and it's good enough
> to be accepted).
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
It would be nice to have it as simple annotation at least that
denotes a method acts like a property. It would be useful for
serialization libs in detection of what methods are actually
properties that can be serialized/deserialized.
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