Language Design: Fields & Methods & Properties? – Pick Two!

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TL;DR: Properties are a hack employed to retrofit “nice” syntax into languages that already shipped with fields and methods. Instead, design the language to deliver the same (or more) benefits with fields! Why do properties exist? The core feature of properties, in rough terms, is that (unlike getters and setters) property invocations look like field access, but retain the possibility to add logic…

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