feature request: interfaces for properties

[Daniel Keep]

BCS wrote:
> Reply to Henning,
> 
>> It would be nice if members would behave like properties, so one could
>> enforce
>> them with interfaces.
>> For example:
>> interface IHasFoo {
>> int foo();
>> void foo(int);
>> }
>> // This class fullfills the interface
>> class F1 : IHasFoo {
>> int foo() { return 5; }
>> void foo(int f) { };
>> }
>> // Would be nice to have this working too
>> class F2 : IHasFoo {
>> int foo;
>> }
>> If thats too strange to you, maybe one could instead allow members for
>> interfaces like:
>>
>> interface IHasFoo {
>> int foo;
>> }
>> with F1, F2 fullfilling it.
>>
>> I know that can be fixed with writing property methods around int foo,
>> but that looks a bit rediculus and requires renaming of that member.
>>
>> Henning
>>
> 
> This is an interesting idea. To make it work however, the compiler would
> in effect have to write the getters and setters for you (not hard but
> somewhat inconsistent), it would just amount to syntactic sugar.

Not to mention that, at the moment, the members would suddenly stop
being valid lvalues.

That reminds me; I need to finish that template for generating getters
and setters :P

	-- Daniel

-- 
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