property-like data members

[Robert Jacques]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:29:48 -0500, spir <denis.spir at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Using properties allows travesting a method call into direct data  
> access. What if the underlying member actually is plain data? Would it  
> be possible to provide a real data member where the language expects a  
> property (for instance as range empty & front properties)?

Yes, see the Uniform access principle  
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_access_principle). (Though UAP  
hasn't been discussed much on the newsgroup)