Property Enhancement

Monkey Forums/Monkey Programming/Property Enhancement

Samah

(Posted 2011) [#1]

Would it be possible to change the Property keyword to help remove a lot of boilerplate code?

At the moment, this is how I would define a property:

Private
  Field someField:Int
Public
  Method SomeField:Int() Property
    Return someField
  End

  Method SomeField:Void(someField:Int) Property
    Self.someField = someField
  End

It'd be nice if we could do something like this to automatically generate those methods:

Private
  Field someField:Int Property

Which will generate those methods (notice I use the same name as the field but with uppercase first letter).

If people preferred their own property names and wanted read only, etc. you could do something like this:

Private
  Field someField:Int Property(MyProperty) Get

Which would generate:

Public
  Method MyProperty:Int() Property
    Return someField
  End

But not generate the setter. Objective-C and I believe C# already have something similar.

Edit: This example is closer to Objective-C's @property and @synthesize than C#'s { get{} set{} } stuff.

Samah

(Posted 2011) [#2]

Bump.