On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 at 21:40:44 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
On Wednesday, 10 June 2020 at 20:24:19 UTC, Vinod K Chandran
wrote:
Hi all,
I read in an old thread that authors of D wants to eliminate
@property. I just roughly read the big thread bu couldn't find
a conclusion. After all that thread is a 48 page longer jumbo
thread. So out of curiosity, i am asking this. What is the
current state of @property ? Is it deprecated ?
The current state of @property is that it doesn't really do
anything. D allows you to call functions without parentheses,
and to use assignment syntax to call a single-argument
function, so you can write getters and setters that work like
properties even if you don't use the @property annotation:
struct Example
{
private int x_;
int x() { return x; } // getter
void x(int n) { x = n; } // setter
}
void main()
{
Example e;
e.x = 123; // calls setter
int y = e.x; // calls getter
}
It can't do binary operations and unary operations.
