Properties in C# and prop_Foo

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Bill Baxter<wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

There were opGet_thing and opSet_thing.