Re: Damn sisters :-)

• Subject: Re: Damn sisters :-)
• From: Matt Rollefson <email@hidden>
• Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 13:34:12 -0800

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 ;)

Did you ever play with Dylan???

You would've really liked it's design as far as I can tell. As soon as you
declared a member variable, it immediately had an accessor and setter
written for it. To make something private in Dylan you just overrode it's
accessor and/or setter to do nothing/return null.

It's been a while since I studied the manuals so I may not be 100% correct,
but it was pretty cool.


Cheers,
Dave
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