Are get and set functions popular with C++ programmers?

Question

I\'m from the world of C# originally, and I\'m learning C++. I\'ve been wondering about get and set functions in C++. In C# usage of these are quite popular, and tools like

Answer 1

get and set are a pain inflicted upon people if you have to use them in any language.

Eiffel has it alot better where all that differs is the amount of information you have to provide to get the answer - a function with 0 parms is the same as accessing a member variable, and you can change freely between them.

When you control both sides of an interface the definition of the interface doesn't seem like such a big issue. However when you want to change implementation details and it inflicts the recompilation of client code as is the common case in C++ you wish to be able to minimise this as much as possible. As such pImpl and get/set would get used more in public APIs to avoid such damage.