Re: property syntax strawman

[KennyTM~]

Frank Benoit wrote:

Walter Bright schrieb:

Zhenyu Zhou wrote:

Walter Bright Wrote:

but oops! That defines a field. So we came up with essentially a hack:

   bool empty{}

weird syntax

I agree, it's a wart.

I'd rather use
   bool empty=() { ... }
   void empty=(bool b) { ... }

I suggested that, but Andrei thought it looked unintuitive, and he has a
point.

Or how about making it a single method?

bool empty=(bool* value){
        if( value ) _empty = *value;
        return _empty;
}

The compiler rewrites the calling code to either pass the address or null.

So properties can't be used in SafeD?