Eiffel and Java's Properties

Elliotte Rusty Harold writes in his blog The Cafes about proposals for adding Properties to Java 7:

...The proper design of properties was invented in Eiffel over a decade ago...

See: What Properties in Java Should Have Looked Like
http://cafe.elharo.com/java/what-properties-in-java-should-have-looked-like/

(via Tristram Brelstaff)