Getters/setters not supported correctly

[jsmonk]

Getters/setters not supported correctly

[trusktr]

Hey, before you get to it, I thought I'd include some ideas here:

Some people would love to be able to specify the types of getters differently from the setters.

For example, the following is something we can normally do in plain JavaScript:

class Vec2 {
  x: number = 0
  y: number = 0
  add(other: Vec2) {}
  sub(other: Vec2) {}
  // etc
}

class Thing {
  _pos = new Vec2

  get position(): Vec2 {
    return this._pos
  }
  set position(val: [number, number] | Vec2) {
    if (Array.isArray(val)) {
      this._pos.x = val[0]
      this._pos.y = val[1]
      return
    }
    this._pos = val
  }
}

const thing = new Thing

const pos = thing.position // pos is type Vec2

console.log(pos.x, pos.y) // 0 0

thing.position = [1, 2] // this is ok, no type error

console.log(pos.x, pos.y) // 1 2

thing.position = new Vec2 // We can also do this, no type error

Here's the (looong) TypeScript issue (with many upvotes): microsoft/TypeScript#2521

In particular, this comment has a good summary of why it is needed. Basically, there are many existing APIs, especially in the DOM, that already use these patterns in practice, but TypeScript can not type them properly.

[JSMonk]

Currently, getters/setters are not supported. But it will be. We will close the issue after adding the support. Thank you for your contribution ^_^.