Re: [xml-dev] XML as "passive data" (Re: [xml-dev] The BrowserWars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wars!)

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>]

At 2:58 PM +0100 10/23/02, Alaric B. Snell wrote:


>Ideally, of course, one would have a language where foo.bar = baz is just a
>shorthand for foo.setBar (baz) and foo.bar is short for foo.getBar (), like
>my beloved Dylan, since then you can declare fields public or public-read
>private-write as you see fit and still add behaviour later. Or remove the
>actual field storage altogether and replace it with a computation.
>

Sounds like Eiffel to me. :-)