Re: distinguishing getters and setters

Ward Cunningham <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:29:30 -0700

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On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 10:57  AM, Dave Thomas wrote:

> 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

Interesting. This makes the implicit equal comparison explicit. (though 
excel is using a different metaphor)

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