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At 2:25 PM +0100 9/23/02, Bill de hÓra wrote: >If that's an argument from thread safety (is it?), No, it's not. It comes from JavaBeans more than anywhere. And also from the principle of least surprise. I find mutators that return non-void very surprising. Of course, if this pattern became more common, it might be less surprising. >for anyone that's interested: the book "a little java, a few patterns" >is an interesting counterpoint to this mutators return void argument. A >nice read. I'll check it out if I can find a copy. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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