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And as long as you're naming things, about the return value from setters? The styles I enumerate in the Alpaca are:

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Re^2: Pithy names for accessor styles?
by xdg (Monsignor) on Jan 20, 2006 at 00:08 UTC
    And as long as you're naming things, about the return value from setters?

    It's in the plan, but I see that as an orthogonal decision for what to call the setter in the first place. The choice for what to name them also seemed a little more self-evident: "new_value", "old_value", "self". I hadn't thought of doing success/fail, as I'm also planning on having a user hook that can filter/validate in the setter and die with an error message to indicate failure.

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Re^2: Pithy names for accessor styles?
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 19, 2006 at 23:09 UTC
    Whatever the documention reads, the last bet is probably the safest assumption. Don't trust anything more than you have to. :-)
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