Do we need getters/setters in our code?

Tags: Coldfusion, Java

After reading an interesting discussion on whether we should use getters / setters, and the views that have been discussed. Which is also a little close to my heart as well, and in some way my logical thinking asks the same question. The thing is that I can actually see both sides of the story, and depending on the job I am doing I will go with the quickest option. But is the quickest option always the best option?

Anyway if you haven't already read it, have a read it is a rather interesting discussion.

Why bother Getters & Setters

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  • Dale Fraser's Gravatar Well,

    One of the things I love about ActionScript is implicit getters and setters. You can not use them, then if you need a getter or setter later you can add it without changing the references.

    so

    object.myVariable

    would just access the public variable myVariable

    public function get myVariable():String{<br /> return myVariable;<br />}

    and object.myVariable now calls the getter, love to see that in ColdFusion.
    # Posted By Dale Fraser | 10/9/08 5:56 PM
  • Tony Garcia's Gravatar @Dale. If I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty sure that implicit getters and setters has already been annouced as a new feature in CF9
    # Posted By Tony Garcia | 10/10/08 3:50 PM
  • Dale Fraser's Gravatar <p>Not that I have seen, but I hope you are right.</p>
    # Posted By Dale Fraser | 11/20/08 7:13 PM

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