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Re: Damn sisters :-)

Brian Luft wrote:

> On 12/10/01 3:17 PM, "Ondra Cada" <email@hidden> wrote:
> >...
>
> This is totally unrelated to the topic at hand, but one of the really cool
> things about C# (no Microsoft flames, please :P) that I wish Objective-C had
> are properties. They let you simulate normal member variables but actually
> call accessor and set functions.
> For instance, you can have a String myStr property that actually sets
> something in a dictionary in its implementation, like in Ondra's example,
> transparently. This lets the user do simply:
> MyClass.myStr = "Blah"
> String myLocalStr = MyClass.myStr;
> And both will not set the variable directly but will instead call the
> associated get or set function. Pretty neato, if you ask me ;)
>
> Thanks. Brian

Mere syntactic sugar. :-) However, it's certainly nice syntactic sugar to get
old-hand C++ programmers to start doing The Right Thing\TM\. :-)

David email@hidden

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