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

Commenting accessors, especially if they don't do any operations anywhere, is unnecessary and a waste of fingertips.

If someone reading your code can't understand that person.getFirstName() returns the first name of a person, you should try everything in your powers to get him fired. If it does some database magic, throws a few dice, calls the Secretary of First Names to get the first name, It's safe to assume it's a non-trivial operation, and document it well.

If, on the other hand, your person.getFirstName() doesn't return a person's first name... well, let's not go there, shall we?