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The contexts in which this question would make sense are very rare, so no, it does not worth it. Let me also quote Brian Goetz on this topic: „No discussion i
by ivan_gammel 6y ago
The contexts in which this question would make sense are very rare, so no, it does not worth it.
Let me also quote Brian Goetz on this topic:
„No discussion involving boilerplate (or any question of Java language evolution, for that matter) can be complete without the subject of field accessors (and properties) coming up. On the one hand, accessors constitute a significant portion of the boilerplate in existing code; on the other hand, the JavaBean-style getter/setter conventions are already badly overused. Mutability may drag with it encapsulation, and encapsulation plus transparency may in turn drag accessors with them, but we should be mindful of the purpose of these accessors; it is not to abstract the representation from the API, but at most to enable rejection of bad values and provide syntactic uniformity of access.
(Without rehashing the properties debate, one fundamental objection to automating JavaBean-style field accessors is that it would take what is at best a questionable -- and certainly overused -- API naming convention and burn it into the language. Unlike the core methods like Object.equals(), field accessors do not have any special treatment in the language, and so names of the form getSize() should not either. Also, while equally tedious, writing (and reading) accessor declarations are not nearly as error-prone as equals().)“