On: Doing it wrong: getters and setters

[DougBTX]

Pesumably you might want to know what the current limit is too:

    videoPlayer.play(file)
    
    videoPlayer.setVolumeLimit(number)
    videoPlayer.getVolumeLimit()
    
    videoPlayer.setVolume(number)
    videoPlayer.getVolume()

Hmm...

[demallien → DougBTX]

Lol. Yeah, I thought about that too. :-) Although to be fair, you don't need the second pair of accessors now

That said, I can only think of one use case for wanting to know what the current limit is - so that I can restore it when I'm finished. So maybe the API needs to look like this:

vp.limitVolume() vp.saveLimit(self) vp.restoreLimit(self)

Anyway, I'm not disagreeing with you really. At the end of the day I think that accessors are necessary and even desirable (see my other post about MVC). Technologies such as Cocoa bindings can massively reduce the amount that needs to be written by using accessors.