On 02/05/2013 09:45 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
...The semantic rewrite stuff is something I don't feel strongly either way. It would be nice, but at the same time, it doesn't feel necessary to me. One can always simply avoid it by not using the operators on properties.
A core feature of properties is that variables can be migrated to them (and back) without breaking any of the caller's code. Forbidding more than half of D's operators on them will definitely break this attribute.
