presid...@basnetworks.net wrote: > I feel that the downfall of this syntax, is that the get and set methods > can easily be scattered at either end of a class definition. With the > syntaxes I provided, it is easy to tell which of the methods a property > has defined at a quick glance, because everything is in on spot. > > Additionally, public/private/protected/final/abstract/etc only has to be > specified once on the property (but can be specified separately! - see the > RFC). This means less to read, and clearer, cleaner syntax. > > Lastly, I think that grouping the two methods just makes sense, because a > property is one conceptual object, not two. Separating the two methods > makes as much sense logically as does separating a class definition into > two parts. > > - Dennis Grouping the get and set is a good convention. But grouping all the gets (doing pretty similar things) and all the sets can be as good as it. You would need to enter into each class/project to see which convention fits better.
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