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Should I expose an instance's state with methods?
I've read somewhere about a pattern that is as follows: if it'll change the state of the instance, the method should be named with a verb and return void; and if the method just returns something (...
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Difference between `Class.X` and `Class.getX()`?
Might be a silly question or something I might have just messed up in my head but here we go... I saw a code example of someone using getPos() in their own class to retrieve the current position of an ...
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Why use private access modifier if we need to access private variables anyway?
Everywhere is said that a private member can only be accessed from inside the same class, but at the same time, we can access the private member using getters and setters, therefore my question is: ...
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What is the utility and advantage of getters & setters especially when they are merely used to read and assign values to properties of an object? [closed]
I’m still really new to learning to program. Just learning the syntax for a few programming languages at the moment. The courses I viewed for C# and Java touched only very briefly on getters & ...
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The usage of getter notation inside the context of the class
Consider the following JavaScript code: class MyClass { #myPrivateField; constructor() { #myPrivateField = new AnotherClass(); this.theGetter.method1(); // or: this.#myPrivateField....
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Should a class provide public mutators for all its private fields?
I work on refactoring an Java application based on a CAST audit. One of the criterion says that To respect OO encapsulation concepts, private fields should always be accessed through accessors So ...
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use always get and set methods is a bad practique, is call directly an attribute class a bad practique in OOP?
I have a doubt about if there are some recommendations for call directly an attribute in a class I think that in OOP you always should call an attribute by the get method. For example: On set ...
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Are groovy automatic getters and setter effectively any different to public variables?
To provide a very blunt example (as I am at work and can't currently think of a sensible example). If I write a groovy class like this class Wendy{ byte[] frank String doSomethingWithFrank(){...
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