getters and setters style

Question

(Leaving aside the question of should you have them at all.)

I have always preferred to just use function overloading to give you the same name for both getter and s

Answer 1

While Ed's comment is true, I do prefer actual properties over the setter/getter antipattern. When 1/3rd of the methods in your domain graph are dummy methods that have been generated by eclipse, there's something wrong.

Without first class properties, however, I believe the antipattern makes the most sense.

Furthermore, it makes code completion easier.

obj.set (control shift space) for setters
obj.get (control shift space) for getters