Re: Damn sisters :-)
Re: Damn sisters :-)
- Subject: Re: Damn sisters :-)
- From: "David W. Halliday" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:27:02 -0600
- Organization: Latin AmeriCom, formerly Latino Online
Brian Luft wrote:
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On 12/10/01 3:17 PM, "Ondra Cada" <email@hidden> wrote:
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This is totally unrelated to the topic at hand, but one of the really cool
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things about C# (no Microsoft flames, please :P) that I wish Objective-C had
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are properties. They let you simulate normal member variables but actually
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call accessor and set functions.
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For instance, you can have a String myStr property that actually sets
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something in a dictionary in its implementation, like in Ondra's example,
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transparently. This lets the user do simply:
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MyClass.myStr = "Blah"
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String myLocalStr = MyClass.myStr;
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And both will not set the variable directly but will instead call the
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associated get or set function. Pretty neato, if you ask me ;)
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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