Javascript property getters and setters

[nippur72]

It would be an improvement if Saltarelle could output true getters and setters for properties (ECMAScript 5) instead of the actual "get_prop" and "set_prop" way. It would be very handy when debugging and when referencing C# code from javascript (e.g. from HTML templates) because of the more natural syntax. There would be also a marginal 4 bytes saving every property access.

If backward compatibility is an issue, there could be a specific [Attribute] to select how to render the class (or the classes in the assembly).

[nippur72]

this has been already done by @mjrichardson in this fork

[erik-kallen]

Interesting. I had no idea about this fork

[erik-kallen]

If this is implemented, does anyone know how to deal with overrides? In normal case, we can do code gen like below:

class B {
    public virtual int P { get { return 0; } }
}
class C : B {
    public override int P { get { return base.P + 1; } }
}

compiles to

get_P = function() {
    return B.prototype.get_P.call(this) + 1;
}

If we change so the code gen is (equivalent to)

C = {
    get a() { return 0; }
}
B = inherit(C, {
    get a() { return ???; }
});

what can we put instead of ????