Barry Warsaw wrote: > Certainly "foo.get_something()" and > "foo.set_something(thing)" are much better spelled "foo.something" and > "foo.something = thing".
If you already have a get/set pair, that definitely makes sense. If hash() had been spelled get_hash() it might have made sense there too. But it wasn't, and for a reason, I think -- it implies performing a substantial computation rather than just retrieving a pre-existing value from somewhere. Even if it's cached, that's still true, since the computation needs to be done the first time it's called. Another consideration is that if something is a method, you can get a bound method from it. With a property that's much harder, and may be impossible depending on how the property is implemented. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
