[phobos] The @property experiment

[Walter Bright]

Please post this on bugzilla. Thanks!


On 4/8/2011 1:42 PM, Michel Fortin wrote:
> I made an experiment last month: I changed an "#if 0" to "#if 1" in the compiler source, one that was meant to enable proper enforcement of the property syntax. Then I went on an fixed a things everywhere to make everything compile and work.
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> It turned out to be a colossal task to fix everything that needed fixing (a few things DMD but most problems coming from Phobos and Druntime), and after doing a lot of it I started working on other things and left the project untouched since then.
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> I'd have preferred to present something finished, but given that I'm not sure when I'll work on it again I though it might be a good idea to let someone else take over (if someone wants to). Even if no one works on it, it might be interesting as a way to see how many things have been relying on the non-enforcement of @property. You can look at the "@property" branch in my dmd, druntime and Phobos forks on github to see what was affected by this change:
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> DMD:
> <https://github.com/michelf/dmd/commits/%40property>
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> Druntime:
> <https://github.com/michelf/druntime/commits/%40property>
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> Phobos:
> <https://github.com/michelf/phobos/commits/%40property>
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> Status: Druntime changes should be complete, Phobos is incomplete and I think I was stuck on a compiler bug triggered by it when I stopped working on it last month, so there might be still a few things to fix in the compiler.
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