Worry only about the things that you have to implement.

  1. Sometimes inheritance simply doesn't make sense. At least at the moment. Why pay the price now if it's easy to change the code later?
  2. Again, this is quite often a fairly safe asumption.
  3. If you do not write tests for the other methods you'll never know whether the other methods AND the accessors are OK anyway.
  4. How often do you change the implementation of your objects? And do you really expect this to be an "automated" transition?
  5. You should be retrofiting your code from time to time anyway. And again how often do you go around changing naming conventions?

If your object is part of an OO hierarchy, go ahead and use accessors even inside the object, if not ... don't worry, you can change it later.

Jenda
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
   -- Rick Osborne

Edit by castaway: Closed small tag in signature

In reply to Re: Make your classes use their own methods by Jenda
in thread Make your classes use their own methods by petdance

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