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| From | Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> |
| Subject | Re: A question about some long java code that has getters/setters |
| References | <d94f5902-8b2e-484f-8095-9ce034e916d4@t8g2000prm.googlegroups.com> |
| Message-ID | <slrnj2k23f.6gl.avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink) |
| Date | 2011-07-22 23:31 +0000 |
Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> wrote:
> What I don't get is why the book defines stuff like getXCoordinate(),
> getYCoordinate(), and getInterval() when it doesn't even use them in
> this very long code example. ...
I can't speak for the authors, but I might have included these into
a book for a few reasons: get the students more used to correctly
camelCasing method names, and because they are standard methods
typically found in widget libraries.
> public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
> return new Dimension(200, 30);
> }
Some others of these methods like getPreferredSize() are called by
the framework, but I wouldn't expect that for the methods you speci-
fically asked about.
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