🚀 go-pugleaf

I concur that "get methods" are tedious, and (unfortunately) ubiquitous.

However, there is an alternative to changing the standard which I have not 
seen mentioned here yet.  That is, public const pointers:

class Thing :
	pReadOnly(&readOnly)
{
private:
	int readOnly;
public:
	const int* const pReadOnly;
};

In this class, readOnly is effectively a public-but-read-only attribute, 
thanks to the public pointer pReadOnly.  Outside Thing, readOnly can be read 
directly via *Thing.pReadOnly ... but pReadOnly and *pReadOnly are both 
protected from updates.


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