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Re: Getters and Setters

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On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 18:59:47 -0700 (PDT), Vikram <vpradhan33@gmail.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>Why do we use getter and setters if we can do the same work by
>declaring the public data members.

it makes it possible to add code to the setter to for example validate
the data.  You can add debug code to a getter.

In some languages, you can use the clean public variable syntax to
access a getter or setter in an expression, so the distinction is
blurred. 

I think Java missed the boat with its incredibly clumsy getter/setter
syntax.  It is almost like writing assembler.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
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Most of computer code is for telling the computer
what do if some very particular thing goes wrong. 

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Getters and Setters Vikram <vpradhan33@gmail.com> - 2011-08-09 18:59 -0700
  Re: Getters and Setters "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-08-09 22:11 -0400
  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
    Re: Getters and Setters Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-08-10 06:34 -0300
  Re: Getters and Setters Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-09 21:50 -0700

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