Bill Baxter wrote:
Interesting thing I found out about C# properties. The syntaxint Thing { get { return _thing; } set { _thing = value; } } is rewritten by the C# compiler into int prop_Thing() { return _thing; } void prop_Thing(int value) { _thing = value; } Just thought it was interesting given all our discussions, particularly that the syntax C# translates into is exactly what Andrei was proposing we use for D's syntax. And I think I even said that was fine, but let's have a different syntax for declaring that the D compiler translates into those prop_Thing methods. Well, it turns out that's exactly what C# does.
C# doesn't allow you to directly call the accessors (which are named set_Thing and get_Thing, btw.). It also creates and associates metadata with the property (so that you know that "Thing" is supposed to be a property with these setters and getters).
In C# (as in the language) properties still work as cast into concrete; it's just that on the lowest level, it is mapped to normal methods + extra metadata.
That's probably not quite what was proposed.
--bb
