Re: distinguishing getters and setters

On Thursday, Sep 18, 2003, at 12:49 US/Central, Jim Little wrote:

> If we were to change the convention, I would like us to make getters 
> use
> a question mark and setters to use nothing.  Or maybe some other set of
> symbols.
>
> x | y | divide?
>

Although sound from a CS perspective, I wonder if this would make sense 
to the target audience, the business users.

Perhaps better might be the spreadsheet conventions: a derived value is 
preceded by an equals sign

    a   b   =a+b
    1   2    3
    4   5    9

By extension, we could have

   a   b  =sum


Cheers


Dave