At 5:30 PM +0100 10/12/00, kevin dowd wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Is having this kind of set up in your Object O.K.
>
>
>
>on settheProp me, theProp, theVal
> me[theProp] = theVal
>end
>
>on broadcastProp me, theProp
> return me[theProp]
>end
>
kevin,
While this certainly works, I wouldn't do that for one important
reason. A set of handlers like this assumes that you know the _name_
of a property within an object. But you as the programmer should be
able to change the name of a property within an object without
affecting the rest of the system. This is part of the wonderful
concept of "encapsulation".
If you want to reach into an object and get and/or set a property by
name, why not bypass the handler and do it directly (the following is
strongly discouraged!):
someObject.somePropertyName = someValue
and
someValue = someObject.someProperty
Instead, I would only build accessor methods for the properties that
you need to get/set and make the names of these handlers not match
exactly the name of the property.
Irv
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