On Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:33:24 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 1/19/12 11:29 AM, torhu wrote: > > The reason would be that if it looks like field access, it should behave > > like that. > > The difficulty is in knowing where to stop. The only things that behaves > exactly like a field access is a field access. This is a known issue in > C++, e.g. smart pointers "are smart but aren't pointers".
Yeah. It's generally expected that properties may return stuff which is generated on each call. They're _simulating_ a member variable rather than being one. I don't think that the fact that a new value is returned each time is particularly relevant, especially since as long as the AA hasn't been altered, the returned values are equivalent. - Jonathan M Davis
