Re: [SVN-DEV] PUBLIC POLL: final static

["C. Scott Ananian" <ca...@lesser-magoo.lcs.mit.edu>]

[delurking]

+1 accessors.

*Every* reasonable java implementation in this day and age should inline
simple accessor methods.  [Those that don't are far too slow to be
competitive.]  Using accessor functions future-proofs your implementation
by allowing you to extend the accessor, etc, without forcing an API change
on all of your clients.

The other consideration is that "A.foo" is usually a lot cleaner-looking
than "A.foo()", but that's just because Java chose to ignore history.
Many (most?) object-oriented languages have recognized that using the same
syntax for field accesses and message sends allows the implementation to
change from a field representation to an accessor method withohut forcing
the above-mentioned API change on clients.  If that were the case for
Java, I'd be voting for fields.
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