Fields

I noticed that in Boost.Python, you can define a class such as this that 
lets you wire fields into a Python class (from the Exposing Classes 
tutorial):

class_<Var>("Var", init<std::string>())
     .def_readonly("name", &Var::name)
     .def_readwrite("value", &Var::value);

It seems that it's possible to override field access in Python, and 
possibly other languages.  Because Langbinding will possibly connect to 
languages where this is not possible (such as Java) -- not without some 
kind of sync routine -- is there a plan to support these constructs in a 
reduced fashion, or would these constructs be removed?

I could see exposing some kind of get/setField, or some such, in lieu of 
the field access override.  Something like getName, getValue, and 
setValue might be made available in the above example for those 
languages, and languages like Python could still use them as fields.

-- 

John Moeller
[email protected]


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