Comment by grannyg00se | Hacker News Reader

Top New Best Ask Show Jobs

Comment by grannyg00se | Hacker News Reader

Or if ECMAscript 5 is an option checkout

object.defineProperty

allows specification of getter, setter, and writable flag (among others).

The syntax is ugly. They should've made it a little less verbose.

I'm sure CoffeeScript will adopt a much more elegant syntax for the feature :)

That might be a quite distant future. See:

"Unsupported features" at https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/FAQ

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/451

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/64

https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/322

Reply on news.ycombinator.com