Olaf van der Spek wrote:
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Edward Diener <eldiener@tropicsoft.com> wrote:
You are not talking about the access syntax of properties, as I define it, so your "Unacceptable"s mean little to me. Of course if the syntax limitations of a property implementation vis-a-vis direct manipulation of a data value is unacceptable to you, then you just wouldn't use it.
Don't you agree that string& name = c.name; name.size() is kinda ugly/unusable compared to just c.name->size() (possible) or c.name.size() (not possible, but ideal)?
I might be stupid here, but can not see any advantage at all for using c.name->size() over the traditional c.name().size(). And why is the "ideal" c.cname.size(), should it not be c.name.size with size being a property of the string? Bo Persson