[amk] > I'd also add it to my collection, if someone wants to provide an > attribution for it. Since Guido owned up to it, I'll confirm it. It was in email arguing against the growing trend of an anonymous project to require the use of trivial getter and setter methods even for classes just basically emulating C structs. By the time you've written getters and setters for "x" and "y"; documented that they, respectively, get and set "x" and "y"; repeated those mindless docs in both the interface and in the method bodies; and written unit tests to verify that setting x sets x, and that getting x gets the x that was set; then likewise for y; well, then, if you're Guido, you stay up late writing quotable quotes. all-in-all-a-good-thing-ly y'rs - tim
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