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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: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:05:24 -0700
• Cc: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
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• Thread-topic: OT: Save me from typing (was: XML as "passive data")

If you have public accessors to a private variable then besides following dogmatic mandates to "always use accessor methods" what exactly is the point? 
 
PS: Properties as implemented in C# make sense to me since developers can add whatever extra logic they need to the property but what you're asking for (automatic generation) does not. 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:jlowery@s...] 
	Sent: Wed 10/23/2002 10:46 AM 
	To: 'Karl Waclawek'; Seairth Jacobs; xml-dev 
	Cc: 'Alaric B. Snell' 
	Subject:  OT: Save me from typing (was: XML as "passive data")
	
	

	> 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.
	
	
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