Re: [RFC] Accessors : read-only / write-only keywords

Clint Priest wrote:

Hey Rasmus, please try and keep these replies in the appropriate thread... And bottom post please ...

I am in favor of eliminating the read-only/write-only keywords and implementing no "special code" to make what was read-only/write-only language enforced. I think the alternatives with final are just fine and good enough and will let userland programming enforce it if they so desire. But the question still remains. Isn't a read only variable simply a 'const'? Why do we need anything more than that? It explains exactly why it has been defined without any ambiguity and works everywhere.

write-only is a more 'specialist' concept as you need information back to confirm that it has been set, or if there was an error. Simply writing a value blind makes no sense? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk