From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-12-14T02:21:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Private attribute or accessor?

Sam Kong wrote:
> In my opinion, if there're accessors (getter and setter), using them in
> the class is better than directly accessing the instance data.
> However, most codes I've seen access the data directly.
> 
> What do you think?

I tend to agree. It's more flexible if you later need to redefine the 
accessors to do some extra computation or store the value differently.

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