accessor/mutator functions

[Dan Sommers]

On 01 Mar 2005 10:30:01 GMT,
Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> wrote:

> However in python, there is no harm in accessing the attributes
> directly.  You can change the implementation whenever you like, and
> change the attributes into property()s and the users will never know.

[ ... ]

> Read only attributes are easy to understand, unlikely to go wrong and
> faster than getBlah() accessor methods.

> Writable attributes I think are good candidates for methods though.
> Looking inside an object is one thing but changing its internal state
> is another and should probably be done through a defined interface.

I wish I'd said it that well in the first place myself.  :-)

Regards,
Dan

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