Re: [RFC[ Property accessor hooks, take 2

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024, 20:58 Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > Hello again, fine Internalians. > > After much on-again/off-again work, Ilija and I are back with a more > polished property access hooks/interface properties RFC. > I liked how the discussion and the RFC evolved so far and that we have less magic now. I didn't saw one aspect discussed, automatic detection if a property is virtual or not. Why not using explicit keyword for marking a property as virtual and not relying on the detection? Detection cannot be complete, and I can think if the property is used in another method called from the hook, we might end up with errors when extracting few lines of code as a method. Since in the reflection the "virtual" name is used, it would be natural and simple to have it explicitly as part of the property definition. Of course, a virtual property would require at least a hook type defined, otherwise there wouldn't be any point for its existence. Alex