Re: Draft Proposal: Symmetry between Attributes and Accessors

2002-10-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:58 AM +0200 10/5/02, Paul Johnson wrote: >On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 04:42:27PM -0700, Michael Lazzaro wrote: > > - An attribute and a method are _not_ typically implemented in the same >> manner. Treating the two as interchangeable might imply runtime >> overhead. > >Bah! I bet the intern

Re: Draft Proposal: Symmetry between Attributes and Accessors

2002-10-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 04:42:27PM -0700, Michael Lazzaro wrote: > [Draft Proposal: Symmetry between Attributes and Accessors] > > It is proposed that class attributes may be treated as functionally > equivalent to an identically named accessor method. In this manner, it > shall become irrele