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   Re: [xml-dev] XML as "passive data" (Re: [xml-dev] The Browser Wars are

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Seairth Jacobs" <seairth@seairth.com>

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "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. :-)
> 
> And FoxPro.

And since this can be done in C++ too, the question now is:
Which languages (except C and Java) do *not* support the feature
described above (often called "properties")?

Karl




 

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