On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Benji Smith<dlangu...@benjismith.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Chad
>>>
>>> This seems to me like it adds more syntactic clutter than adding a
>>> keyword would:
>>>
>>> PropertyDecl:
>>> PropertyGetter
>>> PropertySetter
>>>
>>> PropertyGetter:
>>> Type 'opGet_' Identifier '(' ')'
>>>
>>> PropertySetter:
>>> Type 'opSet_' Identifier '(' Type ')'
>>>
>>>
> 2) A property is not an operator. So the "op" prefix is lying to you.
Well, you could think of it as "operation" instead of "operator" in this case.
But anyway I agree. Getters and setters are ubiquitous. I don't want
to have to see half a dozen instances of that eyesore in every class I
write.
The property keyword looks nice though. What prevents us from doing
more generic annotations with syntax like @property?
--bb
