Re: Common method names (was: "Re: [PEAR-DEV] HTML_Template_IT package release")

On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:01:09 +0300 (EEST) Mika Tuupola <tuupola@appelsiini.net> wrote: > > So I guess it wouldn´t be too bad to introduce something like this to > > PEAR. Say, a common method "get()" for getting a string representation > > $foo->toString() ? That´s the way .NET names this kind of methods. On the other hand, many classes in PEAR already use get(), so making this the defacto standard will cause the least trouble/work. > I have been naming the methods getXxx() for getting the value and > printXxx() for outputting the value. Although usually including > the printXxx() methods is not necessary since you can allways > use > > print $foo->getXxx(). Agreed, but some people are lazy, you know :-) Regards, Markus -- Markus Wolff <wolff@21st.de>