Declarative properties

[Dan Stromberg]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:42:16 +0000, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:


>> The "baggage" of possibly fixing (AKA "generalizing") how your attributes
>> are accessed is something you lug around while your deadline looms.
> 
> Sorry I don't get it.  If I want to customize the access to a "normal"
> attribute I simply turn it into a property.

You're right, properties are an intersting language feature.  I wasn't
aware of them until today.

I'm not sure I believe they are better than disallowing public attributes
and requiring setters and getters, but they do appear to address the same
issue: the needless change in API when your internal representation
needs to change.

Apologies.