[haXe] AS3 cannot handle properties?

[Cons T Åhs]

On 2007 jul 02 , at 15:30, Hudson Ansley wrote:

> AS3 does not allow return values on setters. So, maybe if your haXe  
> code was:
>
>
>   public var x(getX, setX): String;
>   private function getX() {
>         return "x: " + x;
>   }
>   private function setX(s: String) {
>         x = StringTools.trim(s);
>   }
>
> it would equivalent to this in AS3:
>
> private var _x:String;
> public function get x(): String {
>         return "x: " + x;
> }
> public function set x():void {
>         x = StringTools.trim(s);
> }
>
> have not tried this, and I'm really not sure what haXe --> AS3 does
> with the private var name of a getter/setter. Just speculating since
> there is no way to actually use AS3 getter/setters to accomplish your
> haXe code because of the setter return value.

It seems that there a requirement that the setter return a value as  
well, but this is not the major problem.  In my original code (that I  
didn't post) U actually did not have any setter at all, only a  
getter.  It generated the code I included, which has different  
semantics than in haXe.

 From your example above, I conclude that AS3 does support setters  
and getters defined by a rather obscure syntax, ie, a "name" with  
spaces in it.  If that indeed is the case, it seems to me that the  
haXe -> AS3 conversion has room for some improvement.

Am I misreading something?

Cons