On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Arnaud de Montard <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have no "religion" about one method or setter+getter, it depends. My > only personal hate about setters and getters is naming, more exactly the > verb position. That's object-action vs action-object. When I drank the accessor method Koolaid I had to decide on a naming convention and I chose object-action for two reasons. One was that my most of my personal computer background was on on the Mac which is object-action in that we highlight some text, for example, and do something with it. In contrast, the DOS and Windows world where the paradigm was action-object - going back to Wordstar, where you would being a marked block of text type some text and then end a marked block of text. The other reason was that my focus is on the data. The method *GRID_LineSel_Set* sorts with other methods that involve lines, for example. When using type ahead, selecting the getter means that I just hit tab or, if I want the setter, all I have to do is hit the down arrow and then tab. Similarly, my variables have a type suffix at the end of name, not at the front. -- Douglas von Roeder 949-336-2902 ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
