Re: supporting the final keyword for properties

From: Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 06:15:09 +0000
Subject: Re: supporting the final keyword for properties
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The recent
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg59301.html
> discussion
> made me wonder why did we decide not supporting the final keywords for
> properties as it would provide an easy way for read-only attributes (const
> would be a better choice in performance wise, but then you can only set it
> in your declaration where no dynamic expression is allowed.)
>
> I would like it to work the same way as it does in java(
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-4.html#jls-4.12.4)
> eg. you can set the initial value either in the declaration or later on,
> but after it is set, you can't change it, trying to do that would create a
> recoverable fatal error (or throwing an exception which extends
> RuntimeException).
>
> What do you think? Would this be viable? Is there any still-present reason
> why we shouldn't support that?
>
> --
> Ferenc Kovács
> @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
>


the accessors rfc got rejected, so I'm bringing this up again.

-- 
Ferenc Kovács
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu


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