Re: Proper Validation
* Immortal Nephi:
I have seen many websites. They always state. Most programmers want
high performance. They are tired of writing OOP with C++ class. They
complain about CPU?s overheads because indirection has to be done to
modify data members. They want to use direct memory instead. They
decide to stick with old habit of writing C source code to use global
variables and global functions.
Set and Get member functions are very important because you want to
validate data members to avoid incorrect value. Sometimes, they use
if keyword. Sometimes, they find a way to modify data members without
needing to use if keyword.
If Set and Get member functions are not used, then you have to
examine each hundreds of member functions and try to find why data
member contains incorrect value. To reduce debugging is better
software engineering.
You have hit on an important software engineering principle:
* In programming, as opposed to some other engineering disciplines,
redundancy (repetition of the same or similar code) is generally Bad.
But for the same reason the getters/setters example is perhaps not the best one
to illustrate that ;-).
For a proliferation of getters/setters generally indicates that client code uses
those values directly, often in the same way in various places, and enforce some
contraints on and relationships between the values, often in the same way in
various places, while this should ideally be centralized in the class or in some
related class, that is, higher level operations than setters/getters.
Cheers & hth.,
- Alf
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