Properties in C# and prop_Foo

[Bill Baxter]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Bill Baxter<wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting thing I found out about C# properties.
> The syntax
>
> int 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.

Dang I remembered wrong from what I read yesterday.  C# turns it into

int get_Thing() { return _thing; }
void set_Thing(int value) { _thing = value; }

I don't recall anyone proposing exactly that for D.  There was
prop_Thing, and there was getThing.  So what C# uses is a mix of
those.

--bb