Re: getter / setter questions

> Am Wednesday 08 July 2009 01:36:38 schrieb Daniel Sobral:
>> Now, while this would be easy to do if Scala was the only user code, it has
>> to interface with Java as well. In Java, methods and fields are
>> syntactically different, so any change from one to the other would break
>> Java client code.
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>> Therefore, what Scala actually does when you declare "var v" is to compile
>> that into a v field, a v() method, and a v_= method.
>> Which is why you can't both declare "var v" and "def v". It's the same
>> namespace.
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> no problem with that. I was wondering why the setter has to have the same name
> as the getter, which isn't obvious for me, you even don't need an associated
> field to set. But the compatibility to java seams the reason.
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> thanks
>  Michael
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