Re: gtk2-perl / easily accessing objects properties

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 pozsy@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > GET: $window->allow_shrink;
> > SET: $window->allow_shrink($flag);
> > which is shorter and cleaner.
> 
> But please implement those such a way that SET always returns the
> $flag just set. (ie. ->allow_shrink etc always acts as GET, but if you
> supply an argument, it also acts as a SET beforehand.)

would be better to return the old value. so you could say

$old = $window->allow_shrink(0);
...
$window->allow_shrink($old);

lanzz
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