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  • From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: "Bradley S. Huffman" <hip AT cs.okstate.edu>
  • Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Subclassing and check methods
  • Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:49:17 -0500

At 9:37 AM -0600 3/12/04, Bradley S. Huffman wrote:

Yes, I was confused with the "accessor/mutator" usage, and it was late :-)


To my way of thinking a mutator is a method that changes the object's state (i.e. fields) in some way, but not necessarily just a setter. For instance setLocalName is a setter and a mutator, but insertChild is only a mutator. My usage may be a bit idiosyncratic. I think it goes back to Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days, about eight years ago.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold
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Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
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