Comments on: Beyond Java “Hello World” http://www.devpicayune.com/entry/113242010325402381 picayune: of little value or importance Mon, 31 May 2010 21:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: ScW http://www.devpicayune.com/entry/113242010325402381/comment-page-1#comment-5 ScW Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:00:29 +0000 #comment-5 I don't know about "automatic" accessor methods in C#. There is the special "Set" and "Get" definitions and syntax for defining them. And I am sure either VS.NET 2003 or 2005 has something that will generate stubbed versions of those for you if you click on something. <br/> <br/>Eclipse does have a getter/setter generator thing that seems pretty slick. But of course, the problem I have with it all is that if something is really a property/attribute I want to access it as such. It's not a killer, but once you are used to myObject.x or myObject.width. It seems silly to have to a myObject.getX() and myObject.getWidth and then the set methods accordingly. What I am looking for is eligance. The attribute syntax has it... and the Java style getters and setters don't. <br/> <br/>But then again, maybe I am just easily annoyed. I don’t know about “automatic” accessor methods in C#. There is the special “Set” and “Get” definitions and syntax for defining them. And I am sure either VS.NET 2003 or 2005 has something that will generate stubbed versions of those for you if you click on something.

Eclipse does have a getter/setter generator thing that seems pretty slick. But of course, the problem I have with it all is that if something is really a property/attribute I want to access it as such. It’s not a killer, but once you are used to myObject.x or myObject.width. It seems silly to have to a myObject.getX() and myObject.getWidth and then the set methods accordingly. What I am looking for is eligance. The attribute syntax has it… and the Java style getters and setters don’t.

But then again, maybe I am just easily annoyed.

]]> By: Brandon http://www.devpicayune.com/entry/113242010325402381/comment-page-1#comment-4 Brandon Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:55:45 +0000 #comment-4 For those of us that aren't familiar, what is so bad about Java's version of getters/setters? Is it just that you have to write your accessor methods manually? (I seem to vaguely recall that C# has some sort of automatic accessor methods that get defined when you add a property?) <br/> <br/>I've written plenty of explicit getters/setters in Python. One advantage is that making them all explicit forces me to reduce them to a minimum set, since I hate typing. For those of us that aren’t familiar, what is so bad about Java’s version of getters/setters? Is it just that you have to write your accessor methods manually? (I seem to vaguely recall that C# has some sort of automatic accessor methods that get defined when you add a property?)

I’ve written plenty of explicit getters/setters in Python. One advantage is that making them all explicit forces me to reduce them to a minimum set, since I hate typing.

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