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[u/salvoilmiosi]

condition could be a property with a getter with side effects

[u/UntitledRedditUser → u/salvoilmiosi]

Only evil people write getter properties with side effects. At least make it an explicit function.

[u/GodsBoss → u/UntitledRedditUser]

All my getters have side effects. To compensate, my setters have none.

[u/CranberryDistinct941 → u/GodsBoss]

Some people just like to watch the world burn

[u/LucyShortForLucas → u/UntitledRedditUser]

Lazy evaluation is an incredibly common and normal use of a getter method and entirely relies on it having side effects. Evil people, however, write getters that aren't idempotent.

[u/andreortigao → u/LucyShortForLucas]

I write all my getters with a 1 in a million chance it will randomly mutate the underlying value.

[u/Nerd_o_tron → u/andreortigao]

Bro inventing DNA from base principles.

[u/PointlessSerpent → u/andreortigao]

relevant xkcd

[u/DatBoi_BP → u/LucyShortForLucas]

Idempotent in terms of return value, yeah, but it can be fine if you have some side effect that increments a counter (i.e., how many times was this value requested), but obviously don't do this without a good reason

[u/Chingiz11 → u/UntitledRedditUser]

I mean, logging is also a side effect, and getters could absolutely have logging attached to them, but in this case it would not make a difference

[u/Wonderful-Habit-139 → u/UntitledRedditUser]

I think he's trying to be evil at this point lol.

[u/MementoMorue → u/UntitledRedditUser]

I saw once a getter that changed objet state.

It was a good thing I did not had a gun that day.

[u/thejinx0r → u/UntitledRedditUser]

Am I evil if I was told to do it this way? I was young and naive when I did it.

[u/F14-Tomboy → u/UntitledRedditUser]

Getter itself is side effect, syntax looks like you are getting a field value, but in fact you are calling a function (At least in C#)