Unfortunately, you can’t do exactly what you want. You can do this with interfaces though: public interface IInterface { string MyProperty { get; } } public class Class : IInterface { public string MyProperty { get; set; } } The way I would do it is to have a separate SetProperty method in the concrete … Read more
You can provide both const and non-const versions: MyType & MyClass::getMyType() { return mMyType; } MyType const & MyClass::getMyType() const { return mMyType; } I wouldn’t provide a pointer version, since that implies that the return value might be the null pointer, which it can never be in this instance. The real point, however, is … Read more
No, it is not possible. Quoting the manual page of __get : Member overloading only works in object context. These magic methods will not be triggered in static context. Therefore these methods can not be declared static. In PHP 5.3, __callStatic has been added ; but there is no __getStatic nor __setStatic yet ; even … Read more
I think a bit of code will help illustrate what setters and getters are: public class Foo { private string bar; public string GetBar() { return bar; } public void SetBar(string value) { bar = value; } } In this example we have a private member of the class that is called bar. The GetBar() … Read more
Lombok, and the record feature of the Java language, are different tools for different things. There is some superficial overlap, but don’t let that distract you. Lombok is largely about syntactic convenience; it is a macro-processor pre-loaded with some known useful patterns of code. It doesn’t confer any semantics; it just automates the patterns, according … Read more
Multiple reasons: If you allow field access like shape.x = 90 then you cannot add any logic in future to validate the data. say if x cannot be less than 100 you cannot do it, however if you had setters like public void setShapeValue(int shapeValue){ if(shapeValue < 100){ //do something here like throw exception. } … Read more
From my perspective as sitting with 4 million lines of C++ code (and that’s just one project) from a maintenance perspective I would say: It’s ok to not use getters/setters if members are immutable (i.e. const) or simple with no dependencies (like a point class with members X and Y). If member is private only … Read more
Neither. You should have methods that do things. If one of those things happens to correspond with a specific internal variable that’s great but there should be nothing that telegraphs this to the users of your class. Private data is private so you can replace the implementation whenever you wish (and can do full rebuilds … Read more
It’s common to put an additional @interface that defines a category containing private methods: Person.h: @interface Person { NSString *_name; } @property(readwrite, copy) NSString *name; -(NSString*)makeSmallTalkWith:(Person*)person; @end Person.m: @interface Person () //Not specifying a name for the category makes compiler checks that these methods are implemented. -(void)startThinkOfWhatToHaveForDinner; @end @implementation Person @synthesize name = _name; -(NSString*)makeSmallTalkWith:(Person*)person … Read more
Proxy can do it! I’m so happy this exists!! An answer is given here: Is there a javascript equivalent of python’s __getattr__ method? . To rephrase in my own words: var x = new Proxy({}, { get(target, name) { return “Its hilarious you think I have ” + name } }) console.log(x.hair) // logs: “Its … Read more