On 7/16/04 9:15 PM, Dave Rolsky wrote: >> (Anyway, ymd() isn't a get/set method at all, is it?) > > It's a _get_ method. You're retrieving information from the object, > right? It's just not getting a single attribute.
When I questioned the prevalence of "accessors that take arguments to affect what they return", what I meant were the typical get/set methods we were discussing earlier. My point was that ymd()'s not really relevant because it only "gets", so there's no ambiguity when args are passed. -John
