Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Fri Apr 15 23:20:36 CDT 2011
Sorry, I can't accept that; A write-only property is the local equivalent of this: http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ If you can't get a meaningful value from it, then it is not a property - it is a method ( and I don't mean a return value indicating success or failure of the SET) HoseTheTwits Down is a Method. -- Stuart On 15 Apr 2011 at 22:47, jwcolby wrote: > A property get returns a value, a property let accepts a value and > does something with it. Storing it? Not necessarily. It may just > feed it off to a machine somewhere which does something with the > value. It could fire a stepper motor, or set a voltage in a Digital > to Analog converter, or it could pull in a relay and spray water all > over your computer. By the way that is a write only property which I > lovingly call HoseTheTwitsdown. > > ;) > > It is a property of the Colbyizer class which has many different > properties to allow me to do everything from HoseTheTwitsDown to > BoottheTwitsOutTheDoorAt20000Feet. > > Don't make me use the more extreme properties. > > :) > > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > On 4/15/2011 8:15 PM, Stuart McLachlan wrote: > > OK. A property is the the external name given to the state of one > > or more variables ( scalar or object) encapsulated within the > > class.. > > > > There, that's fixed it :-) > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >