A provocative naming idea for "setter" methods

[Bill Sun]

That sort of sparked another idea here...

What about:

object1 set:
object1 get

or

object1 slot1 set:
object1 slot1 get


--- Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:

> I just want to say that I personally prefer the
> current getter/setter
> scheme.  I do see your point regarding the noun/verb
> confusion.  But I
> have a word over symbol bias that causes me to
> dislike the proposed
> solutions.  My solution would be to convert the
> nouns into verb phrases
> by prepending 'set' or 'get' to the slot name and
> camel-casing it.  In
> other words having a read/write slot called 'handle'
> would result in
> message names 'getHandle' and 'setHandle:'.  My 2
> cents.
> 
> Ken
> 


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