> -----Original Message----- > From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Jon Jagger > In his book, Jeffrey Richter says > only that it is for reasons best known to and understood by compiler > writers. Is there a deep reason you hit when implementing the compiler?
Sure it was Richter's book? I havent read Richter, but I encountered that exact phrase in Petzold's Programming Windows With C#. FWIW - I think Petzold misunderstood/misrepresented something there. His example was referring to someControl.Size.Width * 2; something which will fail because the Size property will return a copy of the Size struct. Making changes to the Width property of the returned struct will have no effect on the original and the whole statement is pointless. The compiler recognizes this and issues a warning(or an error - dont remember offhand). This wouldnt apply when you have a property that is an instance of a referencetype, something Petzold failed to mention. Arild Fines You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
