On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, tim Rowledge wrote:

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>> On 24-04-2018, at 10:38 PM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
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>> Ooops... kind of a paradox I stumbled upon here. :-D Well, you know what I mean...^^
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> Yup.
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> It's just another occasion to mumble my long-running rant objecting to bad programming style. If we had private methods then defaulting to creating setter/getters might well make sense, so long as they were private. Indeed, you could even make the compiler create them as part of generating a class - or even allow the inverse so that adding such a method automagically added the instvar to the class.

Why would you want to create private accessors when you can just access 
the variable directly?
Creating accessors for a variable that should not be accessed externally 
is bad practice IMHO.

Levente

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> As it is, the unthinking use of getter/setters is like handing sweating C programmers a syringe loaded with BadCodium and assuring them it feels great.
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> tim
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