getter

This isn't quite the same; the parent is pointing out that you can implement `sameFirstName` without exposing `firstName` publicly at all, not even as a getter.

They realized, hey this kid is a go-getter and probably isn't the greatest fit for our #7.

Ultima Online was an attention getter for employers for many years; to a certain extent still is.

An 80% reduction in tumorigenesis (which kinds?) is a pretty bold claim, but definitely is an attention-getter!

You could also make magic getter/setter methods if you really wanted to get crazy with it.

For Next() in Golang, it was actually a method with behavior that was causing the problem, not a simple getter.

Look at the calls to defineProperty, then focus on figuring out why the with() block has been used in the `getter` function.

When subclassing, what is the advantage of [Symbol.toStringTag] getter over the toString() method override?

Having the descriptor means for instance that you can switch a value to use a getter function, and that enables a bunch of interesting functionality that you couldn't otherwise do.

At the end of the day, it's a limitation of JavaScript because unlike with Python, for example, you can't have automagic getter/setter functions.

I usually read uplifting and inspiration go-getter startup posts and articles on firstround or HN to get me going in the morning.

Do you really need to test a getter function?

I feel that requiring the `()` to invoke it as a function at least hints that "this does stuff" rather than hiding the implementation in a getter.

> I feel that requiring the `()` to invoke it as a function at least hints that "this does stuff" rather than hiding the implementation in a getter.

(we use Dotrine's ORM with doctrine migrations for migrations, so when i talk about getter /setters I talk about the entities' ) * if we add a column which must be "not null", we add it with a default value first, so the few second the old code is still online, but the database is already updated, if an insert happen it will not fail.