Re: @property usage

2014-12-10 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 09/12/14 08:31, Nicholas Londey via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: Does @property ever make sense for a free floating function? http://dlang.org/phobos/std_random.html#.rndGen :-)

Re: @property usage

2014-12-09 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 12/9/2014 4:31 PM, Nicholas Londey wrote: Does @property ever make sense for a free floating function? I would have thought no but was recently asked to add it if using the function with uniform call syntax. I use it from time-to-time. I assume you think of properties as belonging to

Re: @property usage

2014-12-09 Thread uri via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 9 December 2014 at 07:31:21 UTC, Nicholas Londey wrote: as this can break some invalid code (the code where people using properties as functions) Does @property ever make sense for a free floating function? I would have thought no but was recently asked to add it if using the

Re: @property usage

2014-12-08 Thread Nicholas Londey via Digitalmars-d-learn
as this can break some invalid code (the code where people using properties as functions) Does @property ever make sense for a free floating function? I would have thought no but was recently asked to add it if using the function with uniform call syntax.

Re: @property usage

2014-12-08 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tue, 09 Dec 2014 07:31:20 + Nicholas Londey via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com wrote: as this can break some invalid code (the code where people using properties as functions) Does @property ever make sense for a free floating function? I would have thought

Re: @property usage

2014-12-06 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, December 04, 2014 10:21:10 uri via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: Hi All, Do you guys use @property much, or is it largely ignored/avoided? @property is used rather freuently - e.g. some of the functions in the range API are required to be properties. Typically, @property is used when

Re: @property usage

2014-12-06 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 15:23:10 -0800 Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com wrote: On Thursday, December 04, 2014 10:21:10 uri via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: Hi All, Do you guys use @property much, or is it largely ignored/avoided? @property is used

Re: @property usage

2014-12-04 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 4/12/2014 11:21 p.m., uri wrote: Hi All, Do you guys use @property much, or is it largely ignored/avoided? Thanks, uri When it makes sense I use it. https://github.com/Devisualization/window/blob/master/interfaces/devisualization/window/interfaces/window.d#L144 vs

Re: @property usage

2014-12-04 Thread uri via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 10:24:00 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 4/12/2014 11:21 p.m., uri wrote: Hi All, Do you guys use @property much, or is it largely ignored/avoided? Thanks, uri When it makes sense I use it.

Re: @property usage

2014-12-04 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:21:10 + uri via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com wrote: Do you guys use @property much, or is it largely ignored/avoided? i'm using it alot for the things that looks like properties. ;-) the thing is looking like a property if it works almost as