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Aristotle
<p>Assuming you aren't writing all of your separate setter/getters manually, which means you're doing some of the typical method generation or AUTOLOAD monkeying, then the separate setter/getters don't buy you a whole lot. I concede that they can make mistakes apparent a little sooner. It's not at all hard to write a unified setter in such a fashion that it blows up just as quickly, though — actually it's trivial enough that I'll bet money on getting it right the first time. Mostly because it's not a point I needed to be made aware of either; I already do that all the time.</p>
<p>If you want me to ignore your chainable mutators, allow me to have a unified setter and I gleefully shall. <tt>:-)</tt></p>
<p>If you're writing code that <em>uses</em> (rather than provides) mutator chaining though, and I'm going to be maintaining it later, then I shall keep arguing. My experience so far has been frustrating enough, I'd really rather avoid more of that. <tt>:-(</tt></p>
<p align="right" class="pmsig pmsig-114691"><em>Makeshifts last the longest.</em></p>
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