Re: Subprocedure invocation (was on RPG List)

[Tamas Perlaky <tamas@xxxxxxxxx>]

This how Borland's Object Pascal (Delphi) language works, too.   
Properties are actually defined by a different syntax than member  
fields and for each property both the read and write operations can be  
defined as either direct access or via an accessor/mutator, or omitted  
altogether to make the property read- or write-only.  I guess .NET  
adopts a variation of this same approach.  It's pretty neat syntactic  
magic, but having come to Java from Delphi (via some detours) I can  
say I don't really miss the sugar at all.

t.

On 9-Jan-2008, at 9:46 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

> P.S. If I'm reading this correctly, the simple dot notation is  
> actually the
> standard in .NET, but with implicit calls to getters/setters.  That's
> actually kind of neat, and I bet I cold get used to it.