Nick Sabalausky Wrote: > "Jesse Phillips" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... > > > > I find writing > > > > property int foo { get; set;} > > > > More work than > > > > public int foo; > > That's an unfair apples-to-oranges comparison. > > This: > > property int foo { get; set;} > > Is comparable to this current code: > > private int _foo; > int foo() > { > return _foo; > } > int foo(int value) > { > _foo = value; > return value; > } > > It is *not* comparable to: > > public int foo;
I thought this might come up, but what do you gain from all that extra code? I heard mention of not being able to get the address of the field... but that is a very deliberate thing to do and should not be the purpose of getters/setters.
