Properties

[Ethan McCue]

First few minutes of this video.

https://youtu.be/mE4iTvxLTC4?si=V9l0B6opxmkIFi7d

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024, 5:25 AM ІП-24 Олександр Ротань <
rotan.olexandr at gmail.com> wrote:

> As I see extension methods haven't been accepted as gladly as expected, I
> decided to put them in stash for now and work on some other features that I
> think Java lacks for now.
>
> I think properties (seamless access to them to be precise) would be a
> great addition, but having my previous experience, I want to ask were there
> any discussions about that previously.
>
> Also, if there wasn't, or at least properties were not rejected, I have a
> few questions regarding implementation that I want to know community
> opinion about.
> Firstly, I think, having all the codebase populated with get and set
> accessors, the best way to add such thing would be to treat getX as a get
> accessor to property X and setX correspondingly.
> Secondly, unlike C# for example, I think that absence of property accessor
> should just imply direct access instead of forbidding it (in C#, int a
> {get;} implies a is effectively immutable)
> Lastly, for the sake of backward compatibility, I guess if a variable is
> directly visible in scope, I think that it should be modified directly
> rather than through an assessor. While that severely damages data
> integrity, this will not introduce any source code incompatibilities
> (bytecode incompatibilities isn't a thing here if properties will
> be desugared in compile-time)
>
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