Object Pascal does allow binding a property to a field for direct read/writer, but we all have seen properties that required a slightly more complex getter or setter, and that usually meant a method for both. DWScript (svn trunk) & Smart Pascal (1.1) now support property expressions and statements, so the syntax is extended to allow:

property Name : Type read (expression) write (expression|statement)

Under the hood, the compiler will generate an unnamed getter or setter method when appropriate.
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