Inaccurate wording regards binding of properties (get vs set)

[ltcmelo]

This is a follow-up of a chat with @CyrusNajmabadi in Roslyn's Gitter. I was after an API to distinguishing the between the binding of a property's set or get underlying method, while I learned about this case.

class A { ref int Prop { get { ... } } }
...
a.Prop = 5

I suppose this makes the language spec inaccurate according to the statement below:

Except as the target of an assignment, when a property is referenced in an expression, the get accessor of the property is invoked to compute the value of the property

If this assumption is correct, please consider updating the spec with the detailed rules.

[svick]

The spec is for C# 6.0, which doesn't support ref returns, because that is a C# 7.0 feature.

Presumably, when the spec is updated for C# 7.0, the paragraph you're talking about will be changed.

[stakx]

(IMHO, the language spec shouldn't be out of date to begin with (in relation to the latest shipped reference implementation). The language design and implementation process should require that the spec gets updated when a new / changed feature is shipped... and no later than that. Otherwise, what's the point of keeping a spec.)

[BillWagner]

this text exists in the current standard text. Moving to dotnet/csharpstandard.