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

On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Markus Wolff wrote: > 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. Errr. Maybe I misread something. I ment get() methods to be the accesssors and toString() method to return a string representation of the class (and its state). IIRC its the same way its usually done in Java. > > print $foo->getXxx(). > > Agreed, but some people are lazy, you know :-) It is almost as much work to write a printXxx() method to every property :) -- Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/