Comments on Iain Lobb: C# envy: properties

There's a lot of other features C# has that I miss...

2009-07-26T15:11:16.207+01:00

There's a lot of other features C# has that I miss in action script: generics, the ability to include libraries from any other CLR platform languages, the ability to query remote domains, etc. Flash has one gigantic thing going for it though: the ability to run in browser on most platforms with hardware acceleration. So far, and Silverlight is playing catch up, big time.

@Keith Peters - thanks for the input by the way - ...

2009-07-08T19:32:45.074+01:00

@Keith Peters - thanks for the input by the way - always fun to peer over the fence at other languages.

@Ickydime Alchemy is for c/c++ right? not c# - way...

2009-07-08T19:30:24.215+01:00

@Ickydime Alchemy is for c/c++ right? not c# - way different animal

zproxy is talking about Alchemy: http://labs.adob...

2009-07-08T19:09:24.892+01:00

zproxy is talking about Alchemy:

http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Alchemy

Then there is Objective-C: @property int x; @synt...

2009-07-08T12:42:42.396+01:00

Then there is Objective-C:

@property int x;
@synthesize x;

@zproxy Yeah but you can have no setter at all, w...

2009-07-07T14:01:39.612+01:00

@zproxy

Yeah but you can have no setter at all, which pretty much achieves the same thing - a read-only property.

"Did you know you could convert c# to actionscript? :P"

- what automagically? how? (what happens to enums etc?)

In actionscript3 the set and get must share the sa...

2009-07-07T13:54:14.595+01:00

In actionscript3 the set and get must share the same namespace/modifier thus you cannot have private setter and public getter.

Did you know you could convert c# to actionscript? :P