The Sapphire Language: getting and setting instance variables
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The get and set keywords and their associated functionality are straight out of C#.
The minimalist Ruby approach is far cleaner and flexible IMHO. I would love to see the vastly cleaned up Ruby I envisioned when I first read of Sapphire. Adding keywords and a new way of defining methods is not cleaning up the language, it’s adding more cruft.
I also think the automatic exposing of class internals is a bad idea but, that’s less significant than littering the language with things that are already well served with the existing implementation.