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----- Original Message ----- From: "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@s...> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...> > > > > At 2:58 PM +0100 10/23/02, Alaric B. Snell wrote: > > > > >Ideally, of course, one would have a language where foo.bar = baz is just > a > > >shorthand for foo.setBar (baz) and foo.bar is short for foo.getBar (), > like > > >my beloved Dylan, since then you can declare fields public or public-read > > >private-write as you see fit and still add behaviour later. Or remove the > > >actual field storage altogether and replace it with a computation. > > > > > > > Sounds like Eiffel to me. :-) > > And FoxPro. And since this can be done in C++ too, the question now is: Which languages (except C and Java) do *not* support the feature described above (often called "properties")? Karl
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