Re: Reason for Accessor Methods

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I think that you're confusing properties with fields. The OP was asking
for reasons why you would prefer to write this:

Thing someThing = myObject.GetSomething();

rather than this:

Thing someThing = myObject.Something;

where Something is a property with a getter (and perhaps a setter).

Certainly, it's preferable to expose properties rather than expose
fields directly. The question was, why would you prefer to write a Get
method rather than use a property with a getter.

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