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		ufo on Jan 15, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: John Carmack's comment on Doom 3's code style Precisely. The real reason Python gets this right is that it the properties feature lets you write `obj.foo` but still call a `getFoo` method behind the scenes.

Luyt on Jan 15, 2013 [–]

C++Builder and Delphi offer this too, with the '__property' declarator.

zanny on Jan 15, 2013 | [–]

As someone who writes C++ regularly, I would love to see something like __property introduced in C++15.

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