I was wondering what people's thoughts were on the use of "get" and
"set" functions. I personally have felt that creating functions such
as:
public function get theLetterA(){
return "a";
}
so the user can simply call someObject.theLetterA are confusing because
the user doesn't know if they are doing a function call or accessing a
public variable. I prefer writing functions such as:
public function getTheLetterA(){
return "a";
}
So the user needs to explicitly call the function
someObject.getTheLetterA().
Are there advantages to using "get" and "set" that I'm not seeing?
I ask because I was always use getVariable() functions and started
reading ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns and the authors (as well as
many others I've read) are using "get" and "set" functions.
Daniel Holth
I.S. Programmer
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