Enhancement: Property support for HScript

[AbnormalPoof]

Issue Checklist

• [X] I have properly named my enhancement
• [X] I have checked the Issues/Discussions pages to see if my enhancement has already been suggested

What is your suggestion, and why should it be implemented?

Properties are a Haxe language feature which are similar to variables, but invoke specific functions upon read/write (known as getter/setter functions).

This would be a huge improvement, especially for save data related stuff. It'd save lots of repeated lines related to saving.

Example

Before

/**
 * The character IDs.
 * This is retrieved from the save data.
 */
public var characterIDs:Dynamic;

// This is called in new()
initializeCharIDs();

// This is repeated a few times throughout the code. Mainly when characterIDs is modified.
Save.instance.modOptions.set("FunkerSelector", characterIDs);
Save.instance.flush();

After

/**
 * The character IDs.
 * This is retrieved from the save data.
 */
public var characterIDs(get, set):Dynamic;

function get_characterIDs():Dynamic {
    var defaultCharacterIDs:Dynamic = {
        bf: 'default',
        gf: 'default',
        dad: 'default'
    };

    return Save.instance.modOptions.get("FunkerSelector") != null ? Save.instance.modOptions.get("FunkerSelector") : defaultCharacterIDs;
}

function set_characterIDs(value:Dynamic):Dynamic {
    characterIDs = value;
    Save.instance.modOptions.set("FunkerSelector", characterIDs);
    Save.instance.flush();
}

Save data might not really be a good example of this, but there's a lot of other use cases out there.

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Potential duplicates:

• [#3767] Enhancement: Null coalescing support for HScript (72.5%)

[AbnormalPoof]

At least you tried

[github-actions[bot]]

Potential duplicates:

• [#3767] Enhancement: Null coalescing support for HScript (72.5%)

[NotHyper-474]

I'm crying why did it do it again 😭 😭

Edit: Apparently it does this check again if you edit your issue

[Keoiki]

Yes please, the closer hscript is normal haxe the better, right?

This, the null coalescing and the experiment Eric has where you can just type custom class declarations and more without using scriptCall/Set/Get (this one will probably take quite a while though), then we'll be perfect.