On Tuesday, 6 September 2016 at 19:37:26 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
but an @property function which returns by ref isn't worth
much, since you're then giving direct access to the member
variable which is what an @property function is usually meant
to avoid. If you wanted to do that, you could just use a public
member variable.
It can do lazy initialization, allow to set a breakpoint, log
access etc.
You're dealing with an @property function which is just trying
to emulate a variable.
That's the whole point. It's trying to emulate a variable, so why
not make it do it?
