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   Re: [xml-dev] XML as "passive data" (Re: [xml-dev] The Browser Wars are

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"Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@alaric-snell.com> writes:

> On Wednesday 23 October 2002 13:35, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> 
> > Interesting perspective.  While I do occasionally tweak
> > public/protected/private for performance reasons, especially in J2ME, my
> > days spent in XML have made it very hard for me to consider making
> > anything private, and even protected requires some thought.
> 
> One argument for privatising every field in Java is that if you then 
> laboriously write pairs of get... and set... methods for each field then you 
> can (later) put in consistency checks for valid field values, automatic 
> updating of indices, security checks, etc. by modifying or overriding those 
> get/set variables.
> 
> Ideally, of course, one would have a language where foo.bar = baz is just a 
> shorthand for foo.setBar (baz) and foo.bar is short for foo.getBar (), like 
> my beloved Dylan, since then you can declare fields public or public-read 
> private-write as you see fit and still add behaviour later. Or remove the 
> actual field storage altogether and replace it with a computation.

I believe that's it's done in VB.

Ari.




 

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