I’m trying to understand this pull request which will be implemented in V0.7/V1.0: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/25311 I read the V0.7 documentation but I coudn’t find any clarification on the specific differences between fields and properties. In fact the functions getfield and setfiel…

fields are simply the “components” of a struct. The struct struct A b c::Int end has the fields b and c. A call getfield returns the object that is bound to the field: julia> a = A("foo", 3) A("foo", 3) julia> getfield(a, :b) "foo" The dot syntax a.b used to “lower” i.e. be the same as wr…

What's the difference between fields and properties?

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e3c6 May 28, 2019, 8:57am 5

So you cannot overload getfield?

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What's the difference between fields and properties?

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