Re: distinguishing getters and setters

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Micah Martin" <[email protected]>
To: "'FIT Developers'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 2:08 PM
Subject: RE: [Fit-dev] distinguishing getters and setters


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Little [mailto:[email protected]]
> >
> > If we were to change the convention, I would like us to make
> > getters use
> > a question mark and setters to use nothing.
> >
>
> I like the idea of question marks for getters.  That would get my vote.

I like the question mark as well. Besides Dylan, it's also the
convention in Ruby. The problem with the equal sign is that
spreadsheets sometimes make it difficult to start a string
with one.

John Roth
>
> Micah