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Re: OT: Save me from typing (was: XML as "passive data")

• To: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>,'Karl Waclawek' <karl@w...>,Seairth Jacobs <seairth@s...>,xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: OT: Save me from typing (was: XML as "passive data")
• From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:17:41 +0100
• In-reply-to: <D60D8F448216D611A21A00508B62B5BC5DD1@e...>
• References: <D60D8F448216D611A21A00508B62B5BC5DD1@e...>

On Wednesday 23 October 2002 18:46, Jeff Lowery wrote:
> > And since this can be done in C++ too, the question now is:
> > Which languages (except C and Java) do *not* support the feature
> > described above (often called "properties")?
>
> What I object to (no pun intended) is having to write all those stinkin'
> set/get methods.  Why can't I just write:
>
> 	private, public int foo;	// private data member, public
> accessors
>
> which will (tacitly) generate:
>
> 	int getFoo() { return foo;}
> 	void setFoo( int Foo ) { foo = Foo;}
>
> with appropriate calls to super.get/set methods in cases of derived
> classes. Then, if I have too, I can override tacit methods by explicitely
> writing method bodies.
>
> Okay, Alaric: which language already does this?  A hybrid approach such as
> XML Schema + Castor is one (imperfect) approach that's not going to win any
> popularity contests on this list.

That was the original question - many languages do just that :-)

Hrm... see:

http://www.cfdev.com/code_samples/code.cfm/CodeID/39/c/C__Properties_Example
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~jnw/OOCourse/Lectures/01.26.html

The point being you could migrate "public int X" to "private int x; public 
int X {... methods ...}" whenever you want to put behaviour in your get/set 
functions. So you don't need everything to be written in terms of get... 
set... to start off with.

ABS

-- 
A city is like a large, complex, rabbit
 - ARP

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