C#

John Cardinal wrote:

//Perhaps what I'm after is storing a list of pointers to the properties in the List or
//Array or whatever collection

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace PropertyTest
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Example e = new Example();

            e[0] = 42;
            e[1] = 3;

            Console.WriteLine(e[0]);
            Console.WriteLine(e[1]);

            Console.Read();
        }
    }
 
    public class Example
    {
        delegate int PropertyGetter();
        delegate void PropertySetter(int value);
 
        private int prop1 = 0;
        private int prop2 = 0;
 
        private List<PropertyGetter> getters = new List<PropertyGetter>();
        private List<PropertySetter> setters = new List<PropertySetter>();
 
        public Example()
        {
            getters.Add(delegate()
            {
                return Property1;
            });
 
            getters.Add(delegate()
            {
                return Property2;
            });
 
            setters.Add(delegate(int value)
            {
                Property1 = value;
            });
 
            setters.Add(delegate(int value)
            {
                Property2 = value;
            });
        }
 
        public int this[int index]
        {
            get
            {
                return getters[index]();
            }
            set
            {
                setters[index](value);
            }
        }
 
        public int Property1
        {
            get
            {
                return prop1;
            }
            set
            {
                // Enforce preconditions...

                prop1 = value;
            }
        }
 
        public int Property2
        {
            get
            {
                return prop2;
            }
            set
            {
                // Enforce preconditions...

                prop2 = value;
            }
        }
    }
}