Re: [matplotlib-devel] Question about getters and setters.

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 2015/05/13 5:47 PM, Neil Girdhar wrote:
> You're right.  My angle is I just want the setters and getters.  Writing
> set_ and get_ feels like the C++ prison I thought I had escaped :)
>
John Hunter once commented that if he were doing it over again he would 
not have put in all the set_ and get_; they were a legacy of his origins 
as a C++ programmer.  I think he would have started with simple 
attributes, which would have been adequate in the early stages. 
Properties were very new--only introduced in Python 2.2, at the end of 2001.

Eric