So I have been programming for two years and I have been using AS3 for about 5 months. I’m ready to start making my code a bit more sophisticated, so I’ve been getting into things like composition and design patterns.
With that in mind, I have been searching for coding standards that I can start implementing to clean up my code a bit. While searching for different ways to do this recently, I came across “get” and “set” methods.
So here is what I have been doing to make my variables changeable/retrieveable from other classes:
//getter
public function getSomething():String {
return _something;
}
//setter
public function setSomething(setVar:String):void {
_something = setVar;
}
Now, here is what I have recently found to be the standard:
//getter
public function **get **getSomething():String {
return _something;
}
//setter
public function **set **setSomething(setVar:String):void {
_something = setVar;
}
Notice the only difference is adding the words “get” and “set” to the signature…
So here’s my question: why does it matter if I add the words “get” and “set”? Does it change functionality at all, or is it kind of like binding a type to a variable in that it limits what the method can do?
