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[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wednesday, 24 December 2025 at 15:29:18 UTC, Kapendev wrote:
> No idea about `@property`, but here are some things I like 
> about OpenD:

What I'd specifically like to do with `@property`, but note that 
I have tried and failed to implement it twice over the years, so 
don't hold your breath, is, in order of priority:

1) Make it so `struct A { @property Callable foo(); }` works when 
you do `A a; a.foo();` so that calls the returned callable, not 
just gets it. Currently, to call the returned callable, you must 
do `a.foo()();` which shatters the illusion.

If this alone could change, I'd be pretty happy!

2) Make it so a getter/setter pair is called when you do `a.prop 
+= 5;`. Ideally, this would automagically call `a.prop(a.prop + 
5)`.

This is just a nice to have sometimes, but if we can make it so, 
that'd be cool. Some people will argue this breaks the atomic 
assumption of +=, but tbh you shouldn't assume += is atomic in 
the first place, so meh.

3) I'm not in love with the typeof(a.prop) thing but im not sure 
it is worth changing even if we limited the breakage so .... idk.


I think this is it, I'm sure I've written about this a few times 
on the blog, but I don't even have to check to say #1 is what I 
actually *want* from `@property` and #2 would sometimes be nice. 
Everything else is meh.

I absolutely do NOT want to change the current behavior of 
optional parenthesis on non-property functions and I do NOT care 
about `writeln = 5`. Like whatever.