Re: pdd15_objects.pod, attributes, properties, and life

[Gordon Henriksen]

On Friday, February 27, 2004, at 12:22 , Dan Sugalski wrote:

At 4:41 PM +0100 2/27/04, Paolo Molaro wrote:
On 02/27/04 Dan Sugalski wrote:
 >  What .NET calls an attribute parrot calls a property
 >  What .NET calls a property parrot calls an attribute
[...]
 Oh, yeah. No matter which way we go we'll be confusing someone, since
 there are languages that call what we call an attribute an attribute.
 > The .NET reversal's just the big nasty one.
[Paolo's property and attribute for .net explanation snipped]

Okay, now I'm *really* confused. This seems to contradict the 
explanations in the "C# in a Nutshell" book, assuming that C# and .NET 
use the same underlying terminology. OTOH I could be misreading the 
book, and OTTH I'd be foolish to not take Paolo's explanation as most 
correct. I think I may well just chop out part of the glossary.

I swear, I'm going to rename these things to Fred and Barney and not 
tell anyone which is which...
Ordered by ascending esotericism:

        Fields: Class data members.
        Properties: Syntactic sugar for getter and setter methods.
        Attributes: Extensible metadata for compile-time objects.
In context:

        using System;
        using ICLUBcentral.Testing;
        
        namespace ICLUBcentral.Example {
                class Eg {
                        //  This is a field:
                        private int _num;
                        
                        //  This is a property:
                        public int Num {
                                get { return _num; }
                                set { _num = value; }
                        }
                        
                        [TestCase(2)]  //  <-- This is an attribute.
                        private void _TestNum() {
                                Test.OK(Num == 0, "default value");
                                Num = 43;
                                Test.OK(Num == 43, "changed value");
                        }
                }
        }
I have a program which will load the resultant DLL and run all methods 
which have a TestCase attribute applied to them.

Am very, very sure of this terminology.

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Gordon Henriksen
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