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You can definitely get in trouble with what I call "Irish Setters" - they use other set Properties internally. (But the code is so friendly!) It leads to – Stack Overflow Exception - System Halted

user251748
– user251748

2017-05-25 17:22:51 +00:00
Commented May 25, 2017 at 17:22
Not sure I follow what you mean. Chaining setters can be a bad idea, but do not always cause a stack overflow exception.

Berin Loritsch
– Berin Loritsch

2017-05-26 01:40:17 +00:00
Commented May 26, 2017 at 1:40
Well, I am just a master at tying my shoelaces to a bus, I guess! What happened was that each of the setters invoked an internal method, which happened to call more than one other setter. I was doing an example to teach in class of representing money, and I had a method that would reduce any amount of coins of different denominations to the 'canonical' form. "Penny for a gumball Mickey? Thanks for the " - Doh!

user251748
– user251748

2017-05-26 13:23:51 +00:00
Commented May 26, 2017 at 13:23

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