[fpc-devel] C style operator doesn't work with properties in 2.3.1

[Jonas Maebe]

On 16 Jul 2008, at 16:23, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> So it seems I can't use the += operator with properties either!!  :-(

Indeed. I've checked the code and properties are explicitly not  
allowed for the C-style operators. The reason is that the x+=y is  
translated into "x:=x+y" at the parser level rather than at the  
lexical level. This means that in case x is a property, at the point  
that this transformation is performed the compiler already resolved it  
into the setter property (so it can no longer access the getter).


Jonas