On Monday, 9 March 2020 at 12:14:06 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Monday, 9 March 2020 at 10:09:56 UTC, Calvin P wrote:
@property exists so many years, Druntime & Phobos use it
2280 times. I can't believe it is not recommended.
They never implemented it right. This opCall type thing was THE
case we brought up to introduce @property in the first
place.... but it never actually affected this.
For years, @property did absolutely nothing. We were told to
use it for the future. Some people tried to put on a compiler
switch to make it do something, but they consistently made that
switch do the wrong thing! Then @property got frozen for fear
of broken changes. LOL.
Now @property changes the result of `typeof(a.prop)`... but
nothing else.
@property is one of the biggest WTFs of D's development.
no kidding, d should just copy c# property semantics as the
current implementation of it is wonky.
Mike attempted to add binary operations to it, but instead close
his dip pull request and the following dmd pull requested.
-Alex
