<@U0NT624JZ>: I was just thinking along these line...

# language-proposals

[groostav]

@rocketraman: I was just thinking along these lines in properties, I dont want to use reflection, what I'd really like is the ability to quickly and easily wrap a property up as a field --what I'm going to call the by operator's dual.

class Delegate<THost, TProp>{

  var value: TProp? = null
  fun getValue(): TProp { return value; }
  fun setValue(value: TProp) { this.value = value }
}
class SomeClass(){
  val prop: Int by delegate { things(); }
}

I want to then write

val instance = SomeClass();

val delegate: Delegate<SomeClass, Int> = yb { instance.prop }

--though I think yb would be a terrible name for this operator.