On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 at 09:34:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
There are certainly some operations that we could better
emulate with @property functions that currently don't work
without returning by ref (like ++ or -=), but something like
taking the address of the @property function simply isn't going
to work in most cases, and neither is passing by ref.
Basically, only stuff that can be lowered to calls to the
getter and setter @property functions is going to work.
It's nice that we can have property syntax rather than having
to have functions that start with get and set, but it really
doesn't work to fully emulate variables.
- Jonathan M Davis
BTW, some time ago, in another thread [1] about properties, we
ended up writing this wrapper [2], which does a pretty good job
at simulating fields. In the original thread you can also find
other variants of it.
[1]
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
[2] http://pastebin.com/38n0fEtF
