Make dur a property?

[Dmitry Olshansky]

25-Jan-2013 23:27, Nick Sabalausky пишет:
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:36:30 +0400
> Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> These days properties imply an action of, well, obtaining said value.
>> If it's a wrapper as in "return zis variable" something is wrong
>> already.
>>
>
> I agree in principle, but unfortunately "return zis variable" getters
> are often needed because no major language (that I know of) offers any
> other way to create data that's privately-writable and
> publicly-read-only - a very common need.
>
> Ie, that's the "something" that "is wrong already": the lack of a
> simple built-in "The public can only read this, but I can R/W it." to
> obviate an extremely common idiom.

It might be worth extending the access modifiers (not going to happen) 
or maybe simplifying the boilerplate... (could happen but dunno).

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Dmitry Olshansky