A modest proposal for curing the public field phobia

ABSTRACT

Field accessor methods have become a ubiquitous feature of object-oriented programming. The definition and use of such methods promote code bloat and an unnatural expression style. We propose a simple addition to the C++ language that can move the burden of providing abstraction support for fields from the programmer to the compiler.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
C++, field, getter methods, object accessor method, overloading