Re: [boost] [property] interest in C# like properties for C++?

Subject: Re: [boost] [property] interest in C# like properties for C++?
From: Stewart, Robert (Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-22 13:12:04

David Brownstein wrote:

Please don't top post.

> The only real difference that I see between assignment-style and
> function-style accessors is that if you use function-style
> accessors and
> later you replace an automatically generated accessor with a
> customized
> (manually generated) accessor, then all of the code that uses
> the original
> accessor continues to work (with a recompile).

I understood the point of properties to be that they could, at your discretion, be backed by a mutator and/or accessor function.  Thus, when you want a "manually generated" accessor, you create it and inform the property declaration to use it instead of generating code for the accessor.

> The function foo() doesn't need to be changed. This is more
> difficult to do
> with assignment-style accessors.

In my theoretical world, at least, the use of assignment-style accessors has nothing to do with that.  After all, we're talking about proxies that forward to functions that do the accessing or mutation, right?  The only issue is whether the functions are generated by the framework or provided by the client (class).

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Rob Stewart                           robert.stewart_at_[hidden]
Software Engineer, Core Software      using std::disclaimer;
Susquehanna International Group, LLP  http://www.sig.com

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