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lmm on Aug 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java 9 features announced

Methods that actually do something should be verbs, but if it's just reading a property it should look like it's just reading a property. And having all the methods on a class start with get* is a pain for autocompletion.

mseebach on Aug 18, 2014 [–]

Hmm. I guess you're right. I dislike Groovy in other areas so it's not a path I've gone deep down.

Especially for private APIs i Java I have actually tended to default to public final members, without verbs.

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