Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation

Re:Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation by jiggy2011 on Friday January 13, 2012 @03:11PM (#3462180)

I think this idea is that you can use "properties" rather than public class variables.

Then you can convert your public vars into properties at a later date.

This means that you will not have to (necessarily) rewrite your code as the language knows that

a = myobj.myvar

now should call getmyvar() in the containing class and:

myob.myvar = a

should call setmyvar(a) , I know that C# certainly allows this.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation by esrauch on Friday January 13, 2012 @06:00PM (#3462785)

C# allows it but but Java doesn't have this. Hence why it's standard operating procedure to just use setters from the beginning, because it might be nontrivial to update all references.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation by jiggy2011 on Friday January 13, 2012 @06:26PM (#3462864)

Play! framework allows you to use getters and setters with public members as you would in C#.

Not sure how this is implemented.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Coding Skill and the Decline of Stagnation by aaimnr on Friday January 13, 2012 @07:09PM (#3463000)

Spring Roo does the same through the use of aspect programming (code generation, essentially - it generates the boilerplate behind the scenes).

[ Parent | on HN ]