Name: jl125535 Date: 01/15/2004


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
A new keyword to the Java language that marks variables to have Getter/Setter to be automatically generated by the compiler.

JUSTIFICATION :
IDEs like eclipse have capability to autmatically generate getters and setters. But they bloat the code and make it harder to read. I wonder why this isn't
something the compiler could do at compile-time. Why not simply invent a
new keyword, e.g. "bean". Every bean is known to the compiler to have a
public Getter/Setter which can be overridden:

public Test
{
  // will generate:
  // String getBlah();
  // void setBlah(String s) { this.blah = s; }
  public bean String blah;

  // and can be overridden:

 public void setBlah(String s)
 {
    whatever();
    super.setBlah(s);
  }
}
(Incident Review ID: 232174)
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