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I'll rephrase, Your Honor: Even in English, "accessor" is a word that was rarely, if ever, used, before it was picked up in the programming languages jargon. S
by casualrandomcom 6y ago
I'll rephrase, Your Honor:
Even in English, "accessor" is a word that was rarely, if ever, used, before it was picked up in the programming languages jargon. So much that it has not made its way into some dictionaries, like Cambridge and Merriam-Webster.
- hcs 6y agoChecking the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.), they have accessor only as a form of accessory (as a noun). So yeah, the programming use is "new". fwiw, they have "default", in the computing sense of the preselected option, from 1966, while "by default" (in a legal context) has an example from 1764, "Where a defendant makes default, judgement shall be had against him by default."