Lionello Lunesu wrote: > > "Chad J" <chadj...@__spam.is.bad__gmail.com> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> Nevermind properties. Any chance we can forbid the omittable >> parentheses, at least in the lhs of an assignment expression? >> >> In the more general case, any value type that gets modified but never >> read or copied elsewhere is probably either dead code, a bug, or a >> benchmark. The latter is easy to fix by adding the necessary read/copy >> (return the value, pass it to a global or function, etc). It'd be great >> if this kind of thing were a compile time error. >> >> Code like this shouldn't compile: >> >> struct S { int a = 0; } >> S foo() { S s; return s; } >> >> void main() >> { >> foo.a++; >> } > > This is not because of the omittable parens. Even with added parens that > code should not compile! > > L.
Agreed!
