Indexer in variable without index

I'm trying to get following to work:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. class Cover<T>
3. {
4.  
5.    T something;
6.  
7.    public T this
8.    {
9.       get
10.       {
11.          return something;
12.       }
13.       set
14.       {
15.          something = value;
16.       }
17.    }
18.  
19.    public void Something(T variable)
20.    {
21.    }
22.  
23.    public void Test() {
24.       Cover<int> something = new Cover<int>();
25.    }
26.  
27. }

Regular

int something { get; set; }

is almost there, but is not an option.

I want to add additional functions to select few variables, but the variable itself cannot be public. The context is rather complicated. I would preferably solve this without

T Get()

and

void Set(T newValue)

. Is there a way to have

Cover

refer itself when the item it contains is not a KeyValuePair?

 

It's not entirely clear what you're trying to accomplish or how you would expect to use that if it worked. Are you wanting to be able to write

Code (CSharp):

1. Cover<int> foo;
2. foo[] = 7;

?

You definitely can't make it so that a naked variable name evaluates to something other than that variable (e.g. you cannot just have

foo = 7

). That would be absurdly confusing and would implicitly block a bunch of important language features.

Why exactly is

int something { get; set; }

not an option?

Whatever you're trying to accomplish, remember that properties are just a weird syntax for defining functions. They have only cosmetic differences from regular functions. So if the reason you don't want to do this in an ordinary way is something other than cosmetic, you're probably out of luck.

 

That's a bummer. Thanks.