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Re: accessor generation???
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Re: accessor generation???


  • Subject: Re: accessor generation???
  • From: Phillip Mills <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 08:23:01 -0400

On Friday, July 5, 2002, at 07:52 AM, Ondra Cada wrote:

I feel it somewhat strange: does that mean my programming style differs so
much from the one of majority of others?

I've been doing OO stuff (non-Objective-C) for at least 10 years and my experience is the same as yours. In fact, I'd come to believe that simple accessors were a symptom of a possible bad design. They often pointed to classes where no one had thought about their role or behavior.

The Cocoa books and examples, however, give me an impression of a different norm. Much of this stuff demonstrates limiting objects' access to their own member variables and using things like...

[self setProp: 3];

...instead of...

prop = 3;

So I, probably along with others, was adapting my practice to what seemed a Cocoa/Objective-C "cultural" thing. If we're being taught to code everything using accessors rather than variable references, it makes sense to automate the simple ones.
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