On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:13:13 -0400, Bill Baxter <[email protected]> wrote:
In any event I think a problem with this is that for D's simple
grammar to remain simple and context free, get and set would both have
to be made keywords in the language. Can a compiler guru confirm
that? Not a big issue, but introducing 3 keywords for this one
feature will be a tough sell. Perhaps just
property int length {
() { return this.len; }
(newLen) { this.len = newLen; }
}
would be enough. Maybe I'm wrong about get/set being an issue, though.
I think you might be wrong. operator functions like opAdd are not
keywords, but are treated specially by the compiler. The compiler would
probably just change the get and set functions into mangled symbols that
would never be generated from a normal function, so no keywords would be
required.
-Steve
