I mostly agree (without really understanding idempotent, homonym,
mutator or clarity).
Actually, I'd vote for a WO release that added "get" to all methods
and provided no compatibility deprecation at all.
Cheers, Anjo
Am 31.03.2009 um 20:19 schrieb Mike Schrag:
Can I ask why WO as a whole doesn't use the 'get' prefix?
It is a silly Java hack for JavaBeans. It adds no value to the
method name, just makes it longer. It makes it harder to parse a
list of methods as so many are named get...
... or .... it makes it easier to see the accessor methods as
separate from non-accessor methods and makes a symmetric "get"
accessor API to the "set" mutator API. This is especially confusing
when you have properties where the noun form is a homonym of a verb,
and it becomes non-obvious whether you are performing an action or
calling a (typically) idempotent accessor. And you're really not
going to call out "long names" when your primary framework is
WebObjects, right? Don't make me bust out my list of crazy long
method names in WO. I have completion -- what do I care if it's one
extra character to do the complete in exchange for clarity.
It seems to me that most people I talk to that like the non-get form
are from Objective-C and most people who are annoyed by it are WO
converts from traditional Java. To me, WO's lack of getXxx (along
with its proprietary collections API, though I've come to love the
immutable collections interface) make WO feel that much more "out
there." But I've been doing it so long now (I decided to not rock
the boat in 2004) that I'm mostly used to it, but I do think it only
hurts code clarity.
ms
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