Why not to use the same definition as in C#? It belongs to MS, but I think is a
good idea.
I have no example now, but simply look in the C# doc.

Just an ideea...

BTW, I hear that Delphi and C# have the same designer?




In article <bklb95$1kcj$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Philippe Mori says...
>
>> > without proper property syntax,
>> > what happens with a property or function that returns a class that
>> > overloads opCall ?
>>
>> You'll need to have an extra ().
>>
>>
>
>This is a reason why IMHO it would be better to have a property keyword. That way it would be possible to forward call to an inner class with changing the class interface in the same way that in C++ we can chain operator->.
>
>An example:
>
>class A {
>    void opCall(int i);
>}
>
>class B {
>    property A prop_name() { return a }
>
>    A a;
>}
>
>// used that way:
>
>B b;
>b.prop_name(5);
>
>// instead of
>
>B b;
>b.prop_name()(5);
>
>This make it possible to replace a function by
>a class without needing the client code to be
>aware of it...
>
>But thinking of it, it would probably caused ambiguities
>if we allows both syntax (function call vs property)
>
>

"Walter" <walter@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:bkkqg3$tjd$2@digitaldaemon.com...
>
> "Antti Sykäri" <jsykari@gamma.hut.fi> wrote in message news:slrnbmr5a2.qqp.jsykari@pulu.hut.fi...
> > The mathematical term would be "anticommutative".
> >
> > "An operator * for which
> >
> > a * b = -b * a
> >
> > is said to be anticommutative"
> >
> > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Anticommutative.html
>
> I didn't know that! Thanks for the pointer.

There is actually some really important cool stuff that depends on anticommutativity.  Geometric algebra is based on it.  So any optimizations you do on operator * like swapping the inputs is going to cause problems with people trying to use operator * to implement say, geometric product, which is anticommutative.  We either need another operator or even better would be the ability to specify the behavior of the operators as we overload them.  precedence, associativity, fixity, commutativity, etc.

Sean

"Felix" <Felix_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:bkm066$2jer$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> BTW, I hear that Delphi and C# have the same designer?

I think that's correct. The same fellow who did the original Turbo Pascal.