On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 02:15:14 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 01:52:36 UTC, Martin Nowak
wrote:
What would you use that for, a handwritten interface struct
with function pointers made read-only using @property?
var a = var.emptyObject; // works today
a.prop = { do_stuff; }; // works today
a.prop(); // useless no op
a.prop()(); // this is needed
That one case alone is all I care about @property for.
That's what I meant, weird use-case, at best it's a callback
better/setter.
I've never written such code, but even if you would, the 2 pairs
of parens are only a tiny problem for generic code, nothing to
warrant the invasive language feature @property is.