Creating a variable with get/set inside a module in Typescript

Question

I want to create a variable with get/set properties inside a module. I saw some working examples for creating a get/set property inside a class that looks like this :

class MyClass {
    private view;
    get View() { return this.view; }
    set View(value) { this.view = value }
}

But I want to do the same inside a module :

module MyModule {
    export var view;
    //I want to create get/set methods for view property here
}

How do I do that ?

Answer 1

I think it's just an oversight; I'll raise this with the design team (I don't see any obvious reason why it would be disallowed other than "we haven't implemented it yet"). It's fairly straightforward to work around lack of first-class language support for it:

module Bar {
    var _qua = 42;

    declare export var qua: number;
    Object.defineProperty(Bar, 'qua', {
        get: function() { return _qua; },
        set: function(value) { _qua = value; }
    }); 
}

// Works
var x = Bar.qua;
console.log(x);
Bar.qua = 19;
console.log(Bar.qua);