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Re: XML as "passive data" (Re: The Browser Wars are

• To: "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@s...>,"xml-dev" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: XML as "passive data" (Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wars!)
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:56:01 -0400
• References: <r01050400-1021-D8BE0296E68311D6B5470003937A08C2@[192.168.124.21]> <E184M1j-0002U4-00@c...> <p04330109b9dc70676534@[192.168.254.4]> <004601c27ab4$28bc0d70$a500a8c0@SeairthA31>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@s...>

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...>
> >
> > At 2:58 PM +0100 10/23/02, Alaric B. Snell wrote:
> >
> > >Ideally, of course, one would have a language where foo.bar = baz is just
> a
> > >shorthand for foo.setBar (baz) and foo.bar is short for foo.getBar (),
> like
> > >my beloved Dylan, since then you can declare fields public or public-read
> > >private-write as you see fit and still add behaviour later. Or remove the
> > >actual field storage altogether and replace it with a computation.
> > >
> >
> > Sounds like Eiffel to me. :-)
> 
> And FoxPro.

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")?

Karl

• References:
  • Re: XML as "passive data" (Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wars!)
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • Re: XML as "passive data" (Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wars!)
    • From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
  • Re: XML as "passive data" (Re: The BrowserWars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wars!)
    • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
  • Re: XML as "passive data" (Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wars!)
    • From: "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@s...>

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