Re: Holub on getters/setters again

From: Daniel Parker (danielaparker_at_spam?nothanks.windupbird.com)
Date: 01/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:04:03 -0500

"Daniel T." <postmaster@eathlink.net> wrote in message
news:postmaster-5AE91C.21580922012004@news03.east.earthlink.net...
> Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@REMOVEacm.org> wrote:
>
> > You include methods as getters and setters that I would not.
>
> Your concept of getter/setter is a sub-set of mine.

Yes, but that doesn't make it better from Ron's or (Holub's) point of view.
>From Holub's point of view, your definition of setters would include both
bad methods (what he regards as setters) and good methods (which also change
state). So from Holub's point of view your definition would obscure the
distinction he is trying to make. So it doesn't automatically follow that a
more encompassing definition is a "better" definition, it depends on point
of view.

Regards,
Daniel Parker

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