From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Setters and Getters - Classwide or Dispatching?
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:47:11 GMT
Date: 2001-07-06T15:47:11+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34l17.9638$Kf3.106061@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: I3k17.11641$F%5.755714@e420r-atl2.usenetserver.com
In article <I3k17.11641$F%5.755714@e420r-atl2.usenetserver.com>, Anthony E.
Glover says...
>
>What is the best approach for declaring setters and getters for a class -
>classwide or primitive subprograms. Classwide would seem to be the best
>approach since in all likelihood no one would override the getting or
>setting of an attribute; however, this means that the operation is not
>inherited by subclasses
It means it isn't overridable with a dispatching subprogram. You can still use
it for any subclass.
> and requires an additional 'with' and possible 'use'
>of the base class in order for the operation to be visible. Any suggestions?
One common approach is to put "child" classes in child packages. That way the
"with" and "use" are implicit.
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