Object Oriented Development vs Practicality

[AtW]

notepad is for noobs - real pros' use edlin...

[hyperD]

You're all wooses - I use VS 1978 Punch Card version!

[TheMonkey]

Use I do turn it off because I always get the cranky workstations to work with which lag seriously the moment you hit ".".

Atw: I can remember the members, properties and methods. And you shouldn't be using globals!

[Diestl]

All of them in the whole .net Framework?

[TheMonkey]

All of them in the whole .net Framework?

About 80% - SDK documentation for the rest

[AtW]

Atw: I can remember the members, properties and methods. And you shouldn't be using globals!

Why is that? Are you aware of the kind of performance penalty you get if you use property accessors rather than global variable (in a class)?

[TheMonkey]

Why is that? Are you aware of the kind of performance penalty you get if you use property accessors rather than global variable (in a class)?

Yeah. Performance isn't always key though...

[AtW]

Yeah. Performance isn't always key though...

A lot of properties are just read/write without any modifications and checks (like ranges etc), ie:

class foo
{

public int property
{
get { return _property; }
set { _property=value; }
}

int _property=0;

}

In such case there is absolutely no need to have property.

Accessing value via accessor rather than directly is (I think) over 10 (!) times slower - performance killer in tight loops.

[TheMonkey]

A lot of properties are just read/write without any modifications and checks (like ranges etc), ie:

class foo
{

public int property
{
get { return _property; }
set { _property=value; }
}

int _property=0;

}

In such case there is absolutely no need to have property.

Accessing value via accessor rather than directly is (I think) over 10 (!) times slower - performance killer in tight loops.

Yeah true but most business tier stuff has validation in it anyway. In the case above just having a public member variable will do.

Killer is:

object.Property += 1;

Kills the thing quite badly.

[AtW]

object.Property += 1;

Surely this won't cause endless recursion?