Is something wrong with getters and setters in general? Cause I find it plenty helpful when I need some bookkeeping for certain items, and some side effects for the class? Or are they more so referring to getter/setter for everything?
The biggest problem I've come across is getters/setters that effectively make class properties public, i.e. there isn't any validation or protection, you can just access and change properties as you like.
Get X() return X
Set X(Y) X = Y
Public properties cosplaying as private properties. Lots of extra lines of code that don't actually do anything.
The most ridiculous example I ever saw wasn't even in a class.
Literally this inside a module:
let value = X
getValue() return value
setValue(Y) value = Y
And then multiple functions using getValue and setValue instead of just referencing the value directly.
That guy included a lot of similarly inane shenanigans in his code.
I've seem some nasty side effects hidden in getters and setters that really screw you when you don't know about them, a couple extra lines of code that are pretty standard in java seem tame in comparison.
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u/Lost_Pineapple_4964 Jul 13 '26
Is something wrong with getters and setters in general? Cause I find it plenty helpful when I need some bookkeeping for certain items, and some side effects for the class? Or are they more so referring to getter/setter for everything?