@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.