property syntax strawman

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Michiel Helvensteijn wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to have an easy enough syntax for defining read-only properties
>> (often in my code). With the proposed syntax, one writes
>>
>> bool empty { ... }
>>
>> and calls it a day, but with the elaborate getters and setters there are
>> two scopes to get through:
>>
>> bool empty { auto get() { ... } }
>>
>> which is quite some aggravation.
> 
> The point is not really the grouping of elements within brackets. That just
> eliminates some redundancy. It can also look like the following:
> 
> void empty.set(bool value) { ... }
> bool empty.get() { ... }
> 
> and have the same meaning as my earlier example.

Yah, I was thinking the same. This is my #1 fave so far.

Andrei