[m-rev.] [dotnet-foreign] diff: handle properties

[Fergus Henderson]

On 18-Jun-2001, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 16-Jun-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > Also, wouldn't it be better to map Mercury field functions
> > (i.e. "foo"/"foo:=") to .NET properties, rather than (or perhaps
> > as well as?) mapping "get_foo"/"set_foo" to properties?
> 
> Please explain how one distinguishes the field function "foo" from the
> non-field function "foo"?

Well, if there is a 'foo :=' function, then 'foo' should probably be treated
as a field function, and mapped to a property.

That doesn't help much for read-only properties, I admit --
hence the "perhaps as well as".

But maybe we should be using `pragma property' or seomthing along
those lines rather than giving special semantics to particular naming
patterns.

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