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ebiederm@cse.unl.edu (Eric Biederman) writes:
	...
> >It is so close to my ideal. But I have one addition. You described "abstract
 
> >read source interface". I would like to have also "write interface": to let 

> >caller write just "square.Area = 10;" instead of "square.Change_Area(10)".

>But you can already do this.  Not across the board, but you can do it
>if you want.  Just make each attribute a class of it's own.  You can
>then overload operator = and operator int and say all of that.
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>In article <m0t4Dmy-000glNC@axpblib> martelli@cadlab.it (Alex Martelli) writes
:

>   (Personally, it's one of their few choices
>   that I _dis_like, so, I'm _quite_ happy that C++ doesn't have it:-).

>But it does!

C++ does not have _systematized_ support for accessors and mutators, nor
systematic syntactic sugar therefor.  Yes, you _can_ build such accessors
and mutators explicitly (obviously), and you _can_ sugar them up (both on
a case-by-case basis, or more systematically with suitable templates) --
but these possibilities descend from more generalized features of the
language, they're not ad-hoc constructs for the specific purpose of
enabling this programming style.

I most definitely do NOT object to powerful building blocks which
(though possibly at the cost of quite a bit of stylistic convention and
boilerplate) can be combined to support programming styles and paradigms
I may or may not care for -- if I DID so object, I guess I might hate C++
as much the average crusaders for other OO languages appear to:-).
What I don't particularly care for in Sather (and Eiffel and CORBA
IDL, for that matter) is systematic, ad-hoc support for member
accessors and mutators -- I claim it can result in encouraging a
style which often stems from "under-designed" classes, classes not
``properly'' thought of as avatars of some abstract entity...


Alex
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