RE: Getters/Setters vs. member access (was: Subprocedure invocation)

From: David Gibbs

Joe Pluta wrote:

And I'm not arguing about whether you should or shouldn't access member
variables; I prefer setters and getters myself. And while the getter is
pretty much a spelling issue (x = myvar *VS* x = getMyvar()), the setter

is

a philosophical issue as well. Does "myvar = x" really indicate that

you

are calling something as well as "setMyvar(x)"? That's up to you.

Well, I would have to both agree (with your thoughts in general), but
disagree with the importance of getters/setters vs. member access.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. When I said (x = myvar *VS* x = getMyvar()), , I
wasn't talking about getter/setter vs. member access, I was talking about
.NET syntax for calling a getter vs. Java syntax.

Unless I'm mistaken, in .NET, x = myobj.myvar on a property will
automatically invoke the Get method for that property. So, when I'm looking
at a line of code that says x = myobj.myvar, I don't really know whether I'm
calling a setter or not.

And as I noted, it's far less of an issue with the getter than it is with
the setter, because the syntaxes are completely different:

myobj.myvar = x

Instead of

myobj.setMyvar(x);

Joe