alt Hacker NewsIn fact it was “the Java way” for many years and “useless getters” was always a big complaint about Java.
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gf000 • today at 7:33 AM
I do agree to a certain degree, but with getters/setters you could properly hide/set to read-only fields.
In fact it was “the Java way” for many years and “useless getters” was always a big complaint about Java.
I do agree to a certain degree, but with getters/setters you could properly hide/set to read-only fields.
Hey it's better in Go. In Java it's getFoo(). In Go it's just Foo(). Saves three bytes, and three keystrokes if you program by hand and don't autocomplete!