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Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters

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Date	2011-07-22 16:51 -0700
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On 7/22/2011 4:12 PM, Chad wrote:
> What I don't get is why the book defines stuff like getXCoordinate(),
> getYCoordinate(), and getInterval() when it doesn't even use them

Dead code is often a fact of life.  OTOH, some reasonable reasons might be:

Those methods are called by a unit test harness, which is not shown.

Those methods are used elsewhere in a different code base, and this 
class is a general purpose class developed by the author as part of his 
text book.

You might look ahead and see if this class appears again in the book, 
maybe with the "unused" methods invoked there.

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A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-07-22 16:12 -0700
  Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-22 19:28 -0400
  Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-07-22 23:31 +0000
  Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters markspace <-@.> - 2011-07-22 16:51 -0700
  Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-23 09:02 -0700
    Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-07-23 17:41 +0000
      Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-23 11:42 -0700
      Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-23 17:59 -0400
        Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-07-23 23:39 -0700
          Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2011-07-25 19:44 +0000
          Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 09:03 -0700
    Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-07-23 19:26 -0400
      Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 09:00 -0700
    Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Patrick May <patrick@softwarematters.org> - 2011-07-25 16:27 -0400
      Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters markspace <-@.> - 2011-07-25 15:14 -0700
      Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-25 15:56 -0700
        Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-07-25 17:00 -0700
          Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-07-25 21:17 -0400
      Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters markspace <-@.> - 2011-07-25 16:50 -0700
        Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-07-25 18:30 -0700
          Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-07-25 18:41 -0700
          Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 09:05 -0700
          Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-07-26 10:48 -0700
            Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-07-26 11:56 -0700
              Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-07-26 13:34 -0700
                Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 14:21 -0700
            Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 14:20 -0700
        Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-07-25 21:35 -0400
        Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-07-26 06:59 -0300
    Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2011-07-26 12:19 +0300
      Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 09:08 -0700
        Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2011-07-27 15:56 +0300
          Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-07-27 14:14 -0700

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