FEEDBACK WANTED: Type/class unification

[Guido van Rossum]

aeoo at myrealbox.com (Leo) writes:

> I like the direction that Python is taking.  However I only have one
> request.  Check out how Ruby handles accessor creation.  I think it
> has a very simple and clean syntax with minimum of typing.

Can you summarize what Ruby does?

> I like the idea of get/set stuff, but it needs to become
> super-convinient to type in order for it to be used more widely.  I
> would prefer for there being a fast way of telling Python that a
> certain class variable is get-enabled, set-enabled, or both without
> actually having to manually type out the accessor methods.
> 
> Because plain accessor methods always do the same thing, it's a shame
> to waste any lines on them, imo.  It's just a repetitive typing that
> brings no new information.  Only when someone wants to override
> default accessors does it make sense to type it out, imo.

What would you want the default accessor function to do?  I can
imagine lots of accessor functions.

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