[Ironruby-core] Why does attr_accessor create a property, but method is just a method?

[Jörg W Mittag]

Brian Genisio wrote:
> Thinking on this further, if there were some sort of interop-specific class
> method... like attr_clr_property :foo, that caused any methods named foo and
> foo=(var) to be visible to .Net as properties, that would be sufficient.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?

Good idea. Would it make sense to coordinate with other
implementations to get some more generic name and semantics?
Objective-C (and thus MacRuby) also has a notion of properties, right?
As do JavaBeans.

What about

    Module#prop_accessor
    Module#prop_getter
    Module#prop_setter

That way, if I have a simple PORO/POCO/POJO that I want to be able to
interoperate with platform-native code, I only need to switch out
require 'clr' for require 'java', but not change any of my other code.
(Assuming, of course, that the only .NET-specific stuff in my code are
properties.)

jwm