Simple Getter/Setter comments

Question

What convention do you use to comment getters and setters? This is something I\'ve wondered for quite some time, for instance:

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Answer 1

I'd say only worry about commenting getters and setters if they have some sort of side effect, or require some sort of precondition outside of initialization (i.e.: getting will remove an item from a data structure, or in order to set something you need to have x and y in place first). Otherwise the comments here are pretty redundant.

Edit: In addition, if you do find a lot of side effects are involved in your getter/setter, you might want to change the getter/setter to have a different method name (ie: push and pop for a stack) [Thanks for the comments below]