Naming Conventions for Accessors

Posted 2023-02-19 金庆

Naming Conventions for Accessors

from: http://cginternals.github.io/guidelines/articles/

When naming accessors within classes, non-trivial getters and queries, i.e., those that perform calculations, you should prepended get. All other getters have no prefix and setters have the set prefix.

class Object

public:
  int radius() const;
  void setRadius(int value);

  int getPerimeter();

private:
  int m_radius;
;

int Object::radius() const

    return m_radius;


void Object::setRadius(int value)

    m_radius = value;


int Object::getPerimeter()

    return 2 * pi * m_radius;