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Re: XML as "passive data" (Re: The Browser Wars are

• To: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>
• Subject: Re: XML as "passive data" (Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wars!)
• From: ari@c... (K. Ari Krupnikov)
• Date: 23 Oct 2002 20:51:38 +0100
• Cc: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>, xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
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"Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...> writes:

> On Wednesday 23 October 2002 13:35, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
> 
> > Interesting perspective.  While I do occasionally tweak
> > public/protected/private for performance reasons, especially in J2ME, my
> > days spent in XML have made it very hard for me to consider making
> > anything private, and even protected requires some thought.
> 
> One argument for privatising every field in Java is that if you then 
> laboriously write pairs of get... and set... methods for each field then you 
> can (later) put in consistency checks for valid field values, automatic 
> updating of indices, security checks, etc. by modifying or overriding those 
> get/set variables.
> 
> Ideally, of course, one would have a language where foo.bar = baz is just a 
> shorthand for foo.setBar (baz) and foo.bar is short for foo.getBar (), like 
> my beloved Dylan, since then you can declare fields public or public-read 
> private-write as you see fit and still add behaviour later. Or remove the 
> actual field storage altogether and replace it with a computation.

I believe that's it's done in VB.

Ari.

• References:
  • Re: XML as "passive data" (Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wars!)
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • Re: XML as "passive data" (Re: The Browser Wars are Dead! Long Live the Browser Wars!)
    • From: "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...>

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