On Tuesday, 29 January 2013 at 18:54:09 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
[...]
We'd have to move width and height inside the AreaProp struct
to make
this work, but then we're back to square one (you'd need
@property to
implement .area inside AreaProp).
T
Yes that's true, and I know structs as they currently stand will
need some changes to make this work, but more likely we'll have
to introduce a new kind of struct to deal with situations like
this.
Zach the Mystic mentions a situation where we wrap not the data,
but only the functions around a struct-like property object, that
way it contains no data of its own, does not need a "this" or a
constructor or destructor. The idea extends past just
implementing properties, and into implementing "smart functions"
that can be used in more generalized ways.
--rt
