On Saturday, 19 November 2022 at 03:04:41 UTC, thebluepandabear
wrote:
On Saturday, 19 November 2022 at 00:25:57 UTC, Gavin Ray wrote:
On Thursday, 17 November 2022 at 09:52:11 UTC, Dukc wrote:
D has far less need for getters/setters than Java or C++. The
reason is [Uniform Function Call
Syntax](https://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ufcs.html). This means
that a member of a `struct` or `class` can start out as a
normal field and be later converted to getter/setter if
needed, without breaking calling code.
This is a great point that I actually had never considered. If
you need to swap out the implementation details later, you
haven't actually locked yourself in to exposing the raw member
because you swap it with a getter function/property of the
same name. Huh. I love D.
Interesting point. If that's the case, I'd say getters/setters
are mostly just code bloat.
*in most circumstances where no special behavior is needed btw
