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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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Subject: Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:30:43 -0700
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On 26 Jul 2011 00:42:20 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
wrote:

>markspace <-@.> writes:
>>On 7/25/2011 1:27 PM, Patrick May wrote:
>>>It encourages a style of programming where
>>>objects have too much knowledge about each other.
>>This is an interesting idea.
>
>  I would not call an »interesting idea«, what is the
>  common standard of object-oriented programming teaching.
>  Obviously, Getters and Setters break encapsulation.

     Getters: yes.  Setters: maybe.

     What is wrong with something like:

          FilePrinter r=new FilePrinter();

          // General Options
          r.SetPrinter("\\Boojum");
          r.SetCopies(1);
          r.SetDoubleSided(true);

          r.SetFilename("c:\somedir\fileone");
          r.Print();

          r.SetFilename("c:\somedir\filetwo");
          r.Print();

          r.SetFilename("c:\somedir\filethree");
          r.SetCopies(5);
          r.Print();

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko