property / getProperty() / setProperty()

[Ary Borenszweig]

aarti_pl escribió:
> bearophile pisze:
>> aarti_pl:
>>> What you mean saying "attributes"?<
>>
>> See for example:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_annotation
>>
>> It's not an esoteric thing, It's a way to add some extra semantics to 
>> a program.
>> In a low-level language like D there are other possible purposes for 
>> annotations/attributes (that aren't useful in Java), you can add 
>> semantics that helps avoid bugs or can be used by the optimizer to 
>> increase the efficiency of the compiled program (GCC too has some of 
>> such function/variable attributes), I can show some examples.
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
> 
> Thanks for answer! I know Java annotations - I just didn't know what you 
> meant saying "attribute".

Ah, it's because in C# they are called attributes. You know, C# and Java 
always try to come up with the same things but with different names. :-P