Good or bad practice? Initializing objects in getter

Question

I have a strange habit it seems... according to my co-worker at least. We\'ve been working on a small project together. The way I wrote the classes is (simplified example):<

Answer 1

Do you consider implementing such pattern using Lazy?

In addition to easy creation of lazy-loaded objects, you get thread safety while the object is initialized:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd642331.aspx

As others said, you lazily-load objects if they're really resource-heavy or it takes some time to load them during object construction-time.