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Re: Getters and Setters

Date	2011-08-09 22:37 -0400
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Subject	Re: Getters and Setters
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On 8/9/2011 9:59 PM, Vikram wrote:
> Why do we use getter and setters if we can do the same work by
> declaring the public data members.

I would say that argument #1 is that additional functionality
to the getters and setters can be added later without changes to
the calling code and argument #2 is that getters and setters are
polymorphic which fields are not.

Arne

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  Re: Getters and Setters Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-08-09 22:37 -0400
  Re: Getters and Setters Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-09 23:30 -0400
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  Re: Getters and Setters Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-09 21:50 -0700

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