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Re: Re: Why get() and set() accessor methods are evil

by synistar (Pilgrim)
on Nov 25, 2003 at 13:41 UTC ( [id://310008]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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Thanks pg. You explained it much more clearly than I did. The last link I gave advocates returning objects instead of primitive types. This very neatly avoids the problem and moves your program closer to the "everything is an object" ideal of languages like Smalltalk.

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