[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1689

[Max Samukha]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <andrei at erdani.com>wrote:

> I think it should be a property. I followed the convention that stuff that
> doesn't change "this" is a property.
>
> Andrei
>

But property setters are often supposed to change 'this'? Honestly I can
hardly see much utility in @property. For example, Q_PROPERTY in Qt adds
value. It is introspectable, can fire a notification when changed,
optionally shows up in the designer, is resettable to a default value and
more. Is @property only useful for disambiguating the case when a function
returns a callable?
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