Subj : Re: [Rhino] can you add default getters/setters?
To   : Mike C.
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Fri May 07 2004 07:00 pm

Mike C. wrote:
> "Igor Bukanov" wrote
> 
>>It would require substantial changes to parsing and code generation.
> 
> Oops I thought it would be easier, like just a minor change in parsing and
> an implementation for the assignement operator in ScriptRuntime. I will take
> a look in the source code myself, but I tend to trust you when you're saying
> its not that simple.
> 
> 
>>But why do you need this feature? Do you want to implement ASP support in
> 
> Java?
> Yes I was looking for a mixed solution ASP - JSP and being able to share
> session variables between them. So far I can do this using the MS ASP engine
> and GNUJSP under IIS and MSJVM, and now I was thinking to move everything to
> Java.

Note that SpiderMonkey supports foo(i) and o.item(j) on the left of 
assignment operators, for native functions only.  Grep for JSOP_SETCALL.

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